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MANUAL, 

CATALOGUE AND HISTORY 



OF THE 



Lafayette St. Presbyterian Church 



OF 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



PREPARED AND ARRANGED BY W. M. KNIGHT. 

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BUFFALO: 
THE COURIER COMPANY, PRINTERS 



1876. 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 

Church Organization , , 2 

Society Organization ',. 3 

Church Services and Societies . . 7 

Contributions and Church Scheme 15 

List of Names for 1875-6 ; 17 

Historical Catalogue 30 

Sundry Papers — see Index 77 

Addenda, etc 85 

Pastor's Historical Sermon 89 

Paper A. 

Dedicatory Exercises 117 

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exercises > 119 

Paper B. 

The Farewell and Welcome (California) 132 

Paper C. 

A Memorable Welcome (European) 141 

Paper D. 

Church Sabbath School 152 

Paper E. 

Milnor Street Mission School 165 

Paper F. 

Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society 168 

Home for the Friendless and Ingleside Home : 169 

Paper G. 

Young Men's Association and Cordon of Temperance 171 

Paper H. 

Summary of Church History 173 

Paper I. 

Contributions, etc 183 



MANUAL 

OF THE 

LAFAYETTE ST. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



ITS ORGANIZATION AND HISTORY, 

With a Full Catalogue of Membership. 



Hts cnli) pastor, 
REV. GROSVENOR W. HEACOCK, D. D. 

Through this long and eventful period of thirty-one years ; during which nearly seven 
hundred souls have been converted, and added to the Church, on their 

PROFESSION OF FAITH IN CHRIST, 
And are set as Stars in his Crown of Rejoicing, Forevermore ! 



present 22llr?rfi&tj)« 
Peter Go wans, elected in 1864. 

John Otto, Treasurer, elected July, 1853 ; re-elected 1874, for a term of three 
years — 1877. 

Samuel N. Lawrence, Clerk, pro tern., elected in 1874, for three years — 1877. 
George L. Squier, 1874 — 1877. Charles H. Baker, 1874 — 1877. 

The following is a Register of the Elders since the organization of the 
Church : 



Names. 

Abner Bryant. 

D wight Needham 

Jesse Stone 

Joseph W. Backus. (Now Rev 

Selim Sears 

Andrew Parker 

John Otto 

Seth Clark 

Peter Gowans 

Edward Bristol 

Samuel D. Sikes 

John Otto, re-elected 

Samuel D. Sikes, re-elected 

Seth Clark, re-elected 

Samuel N, Lawrence 

George L. Squier 

Charles A. Baker 



When 
Installed. 



Oct. 16, 1845 
Oct. 16, 1845 
July 11, 1847 
July 11, 1847 



Oct. 
Oct. 

July, 
July. 

Oct. 
Oct. 
Oct. 
Nov. 



1850 
1850 
1853 
i353 
1S64 
1864 
1864 
1874 



Nov. 15, 1874 
Nov. 15, 1874 
Nov. 15, 1874 
Nov. 15, 1874 
Nov. 15, 1874 



Dismissed. 



Dec. 4, 1846 
Aug. 15, 1854 
Thomeston.Ct 



Sick since '72 
At Brockport 



Died. 



July 20, 1853 



1357 



Mar. 22, 1867 
May 23, 1873 



Feb. 13, 1875 
Dec. 7, 1875 



THE SOCIETY OF THE LAFAYETTE ST. CHURCH 

Was organized July 13, 1845, under the name of the " Park Church Society, 
by the election of the following named persons to constitute a 

3Soarir of trustees. 

Reuben B. Heacock, three years. Lovel Kimball, two years. 

George R. Kibbe, three years. N. B. Palmer, two years. 

C. A. Vanslyke, three years. George Howard, one year. 

Orin Edgarton, two years. T. J. Winslow, one year. 

George Stowe, one year. 



The Board was organized August 1, 1845, by the election of 
Reuben B. Heacock, President. 
N. B. Palmer, Treasurer. 
George R. Kibbe, Clerk. 

(Not one of the above mentioned persons is now connected with the Church.) 

R. B. Heacock was re-elected in June, 1848, for three years, but resigned in 
1849 i serving four years as Trustee and President of the Board. 

George R. Kibbe was re-elected eight times, serving twenty-six years ; five of 
which he served as Clerk, and ten years as Clerk and Treasurer. 

N. B. Palmer served only one term of two years, one of which he acted as 
Treasurer. 

Lovel Kimball, served one term of two years. 

Orin Edgarton, one term of two years ; re-elected, June 1, 1847, for a term 
of three years ; served one and one-half years as Treasurer, and resigned Sept. 7, 
1847. Period of service as Trustee, two and one-half years. 

George Howard's first term -was but f«r one year; was re-elected, June 5, 1849 
and '52, '55, '58 and 1861. Was chosen President of the Board, June 1st, 1852, and 
served in that capacity twelve years. 

T. J. Winslow served only his one term of one year. 

George Stowe served only his one term of one year. 

The name of the Church was changed by unanimous vote, from " Park Church 
Society," to that of " Lafayette Street Church Society," October 21, 
1845. 



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6 MANUAL OF THE 



Moav^s of ®vuBtttu. 

The following named persons constitute the present Board of 
Trustees. To each of which is appended the expiration of their 



term of office : 

Cornelius M. Horton, June 6, 1876 

John Gowans, . . . June 6, 1876. 

Joseph P. Dudley, June 6, 1876, 

Henry Guilds, June 5, 1877 

Henry H. Hale, June 5, 1877 

John L. Alberger, June 5, 1877. 

Loran L. Lewis, June 4, 1878 

Nathaniel Brush, June 4, 1878, 

Willard W. Brown, June 4, 1878 



3PresCimit of tfje 3Soau*o\ 
HENRY CHILDS. 

treasurer antr ^cttns €Icrfc. 
JOHN GOWANS. 



©rgamst. 
LEVI S. GATES. 

precentor. 
JAMES W. BIXBY. 

Sexton, 
JAMES BILES. 

Residence at Central School buildings. 

William Turner, James A. Bixby, 

Edwin G. Sawn, Howard Winship. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



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" Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is ; but exhorting 
one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Heb. x, 25. 

Sabbath Morning Service at 10:30 o'clock. 
" Evening " " 7:30 o'clock. 

Week Day Evening Service (Oct. 1st to April 1st), at 7:30 o'clock. 
" " " " (April 1st to Oct. 1st), at 7:45 o'clock. 

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered on the first Sabbath 
morning of February, April, June, August, October and December. 

Lecture Preparatory to Communion is given on the Wednesday 
evening preceding each Communion. 

Regular Meeting of the Session, to receive applicants for admission 
to the Church, is held on the Tuesday evening preceding the Communion. 

Baptism of the Children of the Church is administered on the Sab- 
bath morning following the Communion. 

Monthly Concert of Prayer for Missions is held on the first 
Wednesday evening of each month. 

General Church Prayer Meeting, on the other Wednesday evenings 
of each month. 

Young People's Prayer Meeting, on each Sunday evening from 6:30 
to 7:30. 

Woman's Prayer Meeting, on Thursday of each week at 3:30 p. m. 

Young Ladies' Prayer Meeting, on Thursday of each week at 4:30 
p. M. 

Woman's Missionary Society, Annual Meeting first week in April, and 
quarterly. 

Church Sabbath School at 12 m. 

Christian Band, first Sunday of each month, 4 p. m. 

Milnor Street Mission School at 2 p. m. 

The Annual Church Meeting is held on the second Wednesday 
evening of January. 

The Annual Meeting of the Society, for the election of Trustees, 
is held on the first Tuesday in June of each year. 

Annual Renting of Pews takes place on the last Monday evening in 
December. 



8 MANUAL OF THE 



Satisfactory evidence of a Christian experience and character, a cordial and an 
unreserved profession of faith in Christ as their only Saviour, or a regular certificate 
of dismission from some other Evangelical Church, are the usual requisites for admis- 
sion to membership to this church. 

We consider it to be desirable, however, that those who enter our communion 
should be in sympathy with Presbyterian order and doctrine, as taught in our 
churches or stated in our catechism, setting forth the truth, as we understand it to 
be given in God's Word — our only authoritative guide. 

Statement by the Pastor. 

At the regular meeting of the Session, the following named persons have been 
propounded for fellowship with us on profession of their faith in Christ. 

[ The names being read, the persons come forzvard.] 

Articles of jFatt$ antr dobenant. 

Dearly Beloved: 

You have now presented yourself in this public manner, before God, his People, 
and the World, to take his covenant upon you — to confess Jesus Christ before men — 
to testify your faith and hope and joy in his religion — practically to condemn your 
former life, together with the whole world, as lying in wickedness — unreservedly to 
dedicate yourself to the service of your Creator, and to enter into solemn covenant 
with his visible people. You are about to profess supreme love to God, sincere con- 
trition for all your sins of heart and life, and faith unfeigned in Jesus Christ. May 
the Spirit of God fill your heart while you engage in these duties. 

The following summary of the faith once delivered to the saints, is held and taught 
by this church : 

Confession of Faith. 

Article I. — We believe that the Bible, comprising the Old and New Testaments, 
is the Word of God, dictated by the inspiration of his Spirit, and our only rule of 
faith and practice. 

Article II. — We believe that there is one only living and true God, subsisting in 
three co-equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, self-existent and 
infinite in every perfection — the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of the Universe 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 9 



Article III. — We believe that man was created in a state of perfect holiness, 
but that he fell from this state by sinning against God. 

Article IV. — We believe that man, as a sinner, deserves the wrath and curse of 
God ; that God could not consistently restore him to his favor without an atonement ; 
and that Jesus Christ, the second person in the Godhead, has in our nature offered 
himself a sacrifice for sin upon the Cross, so that God can now be just and the 
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 

Article V. — We believe that the atonement made by Jesus Christ has opened 
the only door of hope to our guilty race ; that salvation is freely offered to sinners in the 
Gospel ; that all who truly repent of sin, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, shall 
be saved ; and that those who reject Christ and his salvation, will perish through 
their own impenitence and unbelief. 

Article VI. — We believe that all men, till renewed by the divine Spirit, are 
under the influence of the " carnal mind, which is enmity against God," and that 
without regeneration or a change of heart, no sinner can be saved. 

Article VII. — We believe that a saving change is wrought in the heart of the 
sinner by the Spirit of God ; and that this change is effected in a manner perfectly 
consistent with the freedom and responsibility of man ; that while pardon and 
eternal life are tendered to all through that propitiation which has been offered for 
the sins of the world — and while all, if left to themselves, would continue, through 
their own fault, to reject this great salvation, the Spirit, in the sovereignty of his 
operations, and according to the purpose of God, inclines the sinner to the exercise 
of repentance unto life, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Article VIII. — We believe that those who are renewed by the Spirit, and par- 
doned and justified through the blood of Christ, are kept by the power of God 
through faith unto salvation. 

Article IX. — We believe that the children of God are "created in, Christ Jesus 
unto good works," and that a renewed heart will evince itself in the various acts and 
duties of an obedient life. , 

Article X. — We believe that any number of Christians, duly organized, consti- 
tute a church of Christ, the special ordinances of which are Baptism and the Lord's 
Supper ; that Baptism is to be administered to such believing adults as have not 
been baptised, and to their households ; and that a profession of holy love to the 
Lord Jesus Christ is justly required of all who are permitted to partake of the 
Supper. 

Article XL — We believe that Jesus Christ will appear at the end of time, to 
raise the dead and judge the world ; (that all changes in moral character which are 
incident to a state of probation, will then cease ;) that the righteous will then be 
received into life eternal, and the wicked will go away into everlasting punishment. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



To these declarations of Christian doctrine, as far as you apprehend them, you 
give your considerate and cordial assent. 

[Here Baptism is administered^ 
You will now enter into solemn Covenant with this church. 

The Covenant. 

And now, in the presence of God, angels and men, you do solemnly vouch the 
Lord Jehovah to be your God and portion, the object of your supreme love and 
delight, and the Lord Jesus Christ to be your Saviour from sin and death ; your 
Prophet to instruct you, your Priest to atone and intercede for you, and your King 
to rule, protect and enrich you, and the Holy Spirit to be your illuminator, sanctifier, 
comforter, and guide, looking to him for light, grace and peace ; unto this triune 
God — this wonderful name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, 
into which we are baptised, — you do now, without reserve, give yourself away, in a 
covenant never to be revoked, to be his willing servant forever, to observe all his 
commandments, and all his ordinances, in the sanctuary, in the family, and in the 
closet. You engage to sanctify the Lord's day, to assemble with the people of God 
on the Sabbath, and at the stated and occasional meetings of the church during the 
week, for the purposes of instruction and devotion, as opportunity may afford, and 
to discharge all those duties by which God may be glorified and the religion of the 
Bible extended and established among men. You do also bind yourself by cove- 
nant to this church, to watch over us in the Lord ; to seek our purity, peace and 
edification, and conscientiously to submit to the doctrine, government and discipline 
of Christ, as here administered ; counting it a privilege and a favor, not a privation 
or a grievance, to be subject to that authority which He hath himself established in 
His Church. Thus you solemnly covenant and promise. 

On account of these your professions and engagements, we, the members of the 
church 

[Here the Members of the Church will rise.] 

do now affectionately receive you to our communion. In the name of Christ, we 
declare you entitled to all the visible privileges of His house, as enjoyed by us. We 
welcome you, as brethren in Christ, to this fellowship with us in the labors and the 
blessings, the trials and rewards, of the Gospel of our risen Redeemer, and, on our 
part engage, in his strength, to watch over you, to seek your edification, and to aid 
your progress through this wilderness to the land of Eternal Rest. Amen. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. II 



Gtfjuvty Sunttag Scfjool. 



HOURS 
" All thy children shall 

Charles H. Baker, 
Edmund J. Plumley, 
Miss Mary Ann Ripley. 
John Otto, 
William Turner, . 
William McNiven, 
James A. Bixby, 
James W. Bixby, 
Miss Ida M. Barker, 
Charles G. Brundige, 
Levi S. Gates, 
Mrs. Trowbridge, and > 
Mrs. Heacock, ) 
Byron S. Wescott, 



FROM 12 TO I P. M. 

be taught of the Lord." — Isaiah, liv, 13. 

. Superintendent. 
X . ■ Assistant Superintendents. 

. Treasurer. 

. Secretary. 

. Assistant Secretary. 

. Librarian. 

. Chorister. 

. Organist. 

. Teacher of A dult Bible Class. 

. Teacher of Union Bible Class. 

. Teachers of Infant Depart?nent. 
. Librarian. 



INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. 



Number of classes, 24 : Lady teachers, 1 
Average attendance for 1875, 215. 
Collection in Intermediate Department, $200.65. 
In Union Bible Class, $54.30. 



Gentlemen teachers, 6. 



J&Unor Street Jfttem'tm StwTras Scijool, 



John Gowans, 
W. W. Brown, 
John Lapey, 
James Lynd, 
John Lapey, 
Miss Lydia Hess, 
Miss Julia M. Burrows, 
Edwin P. Sikes,. 
W. W. Brown, Miss Ellen, 
Brown, Mrs. George R. Haines. 



Superintendent. 
Assistant Superintendent. 
Secretary. 

Assistant Secretary. 

Chorister. 

Organist. 

Teacher of Primary Departm 1 nt. 
AssH Teacher Primary Dep't. 

Bible Class Teachers. 



INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. 

Assistant Teachers, ladies, 13: Assistant teachers, gentlemen, 11. 
Average attendance for 1875, 355. Collections, about $200. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



&l\t J&ontljlg Concert 

" Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." — Mark xvi, 15. 

The mission fields of the Presbyterian Board, and the time when they 
are to be specially considered, are as follows : 

January. General Summary and Review. 

February. China and the Chinese in the United States. 

March. Mexico and New Mexico. 

April. India. 

May. Siam and Laos. 

June. Africa. 

July. North American Indians and Home Missions. 
August. South America. 
September. Japan and the Pacific Islands. 
October. Persia. 

November. Papal Europe and Women's Missions. 
December. Syria and Turkey. 

A collection is taken at each and every meeting, the amount to be 
divided equally between the Home and Foreign Missions. 



Meets the second Tuesday of each month. 

Willard W. Brown, . . . President. 

Howard Winship, . .. . Vice-President. 

Francis A. Board, . . . Secretary 

James Lynd, . . . . Treasurer, 



OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The moral, social, intellectual and spiritual culture of our young men ■ 
together with special missionary work at the Milnor Street Chapel. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 3 



Oje <£ortrou of temperance* 

An association of the young people of the Church and congregation, for 
the promotion of the cause of temperance among the young. Meets the 
last Friday of each month. 

u Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby 
is not wise." — Prov. xx : 1. 

OFFICERS FOR 1876. 

Howard Winship, . . . . Chief. 

Frederick Howard, . . First Assistant Chief. 

Miss Nellie C. Palmer. . . . Second Assistant Chief 

Joshua Parker, .... Secretary. 

Miss Martha Lynd, . . . Treasurer. 

advisory board. 

Our Pastor, President, Howard Winship, Chief (ex-officio), 

John Otto, Charles H. Baker, 

Wm. Turner. 

g&Iowau's SSI or It* 

Ladies' Association of the Church. 

Mrs. Selim Sears, President. 

Mrs. Nathaniel Brown, Secretary and Treasurer. 

This Society has raised in the past year, something more than $500.00, 
which sum has been paid over to the Board of Trustees. 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Lafayette St. Church. 

Mrs. Henry Childs, .... President. 

Mrs. George C. Stearns, . . . First Vice-President. 

Mrs. W. G. Bancroft, .... Second Vice-President. 

Miss Mary A. Ripley., . . . Secretary. 

Miss Lucy F. Lander, . . . Corresponding Secretary. 

Miss Harriet M. Buel, . . . . Treasurer. 

Has special interest in the mission work in Persia, Japan and Mexico. 
Society prosperous, interest always good, and still deepening. 
This is one of the Auxiliary Societies of the Buffalo Presbyterial Soci- 
ety ; meets first week in April. 

Collections for 1875, $217.30 

Contributed to A. B. C. F. M. by a lady member, . 150.00 

Total, $3i7-3o 



MANUAL OF THE 



Home Missions. 

At present no organization ; work heretofore has been done under other 
organizations. 

Collections and Contributions for the year 1874 and 1875, $250.00, largely 
under the direction of Mrs. Samuel D. Sikes. 

Buffalo General Hospital. 

This Church is represented in this work by Mrs. Dr. Miner, Mrs. S. D. 
Sikes and Mrs. J. L. Alberger, who served during the past year (1875), 
and have been re-appointed to serve" for the coming year. 

Collection by the Ladies ... . . $194.50 
Donated by a gentleman-member of the Church . 50.00 

The Ingleside Home. 
The ladies of this church who are connected with this institution are : 

Mrs. George C. Stearns, .... President. 
Mrs. Joseph Guild, Vice-President. 

In the Board of Managers are Mrs. Loran L. Lewis, Mrs. Elisha 
Comstock. 

In the Board of Trustees, Mrs. George C. Stearns, Mrs. L. L. Lewis, 
Mrs J. Guild. 

In the Real Estate Committee, Mrs. Stearns and Mrs. Guild. 
This Institution is in a prosperous condition, and much good is being 
done. 

One of the ladies of this church — the President of the institution — has 
been, for some two years or more, visiting the Penitentiary for the purpose of 
inducing the " fallen " to go to the "Ingleside Home," when their term of 
imprisonment expires. 

No special collections for 1875. 

Woman's Christian Association (City). 

Among the names of its officers we find that of 

Mrs. Edwin S. Husted, Corresponding Secretary. 
Miss Mary E. Chichester, Recording Secretary. 

From fifteen to twenty of the ladies of this Church, are connected with this 
Association as members. 



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Home for the Friendless. 

This Institution is represented from this Church by Mrs. Selim Sears as 
Vice-President, and Mrs. N. Brown and Mrs. J. R. Dudley, Managers. 
Miss Mary E. Chichester is the Business Manager of Our Record. 
Collection, $60.00 

Orphan Asylum. 

This institution is represented from this Church by Mrs. J. S. Trow- 
bridge, Mrs. Selim Sears, and Mrs. H. S. Hubbell. 

Collection for 1875, • • • $11400 



In this Church giving is a part of our worship every Sabbath morning. 

" Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase." 

" So shall thy barns tie filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." 

Prov. iii 9, 10. 

A box is provided in each pew for the reception of Contributions: 
It is very important that every individual among us, as a matter of 
privilege and duty, should take some participation in this work — the poorest 
members having their share in it as well as the wealthiest. Let all be 
helpers of Christ's cause on earth "As God has prospered us." 

Of the Sabbath collections five hundred dollars per annum go to the 
Trustee Fund; the balance is divided (being the Benevolent Fund), as follows : 



1. Board of Foreign Missions, 

2. Board of Home Missions, . 

3. Bible Society, 

4. Education, . 

5. Publication, 

6. Church Erection, 

7. Poor Fund, 

8. Freedmen, . 

9. Church Missionary, 
10. Miscellaneous Fund, 



15 per cent. 

2 
5 
3 
5 
20 

5 
20 
10 



Persons wishing to contribute specially to any of the foregoing agencies, 
can do so, by enclosing the amount in a suitably marked envelope. 

" Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in My House, and prove 
me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of Heaven, and pour 
you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." — Mal. iii, 10. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



GENERAL STATEMENT 

Of moneys which have been collected or contributed by various societies or individ- 
uals connected with the church, including pew rents, &c. 



Trustee Fund, as reported by the Treasurer of the Society, . $6,134.82 

Sabbath Collections, as reported by Treasurer of the Church, . 1,952.85 

Collected for Milnor Street Chapel Extension, .... 1,915.00 

Church Sabbath School collections, 254.95 

Milnor Street Sabbath School collections, 200.00 

Ladies' Association, . . • 500.00 

From four individuals, . 474.00 

Collected by Cordon of Temperance, 206.32 

" " Young Men's Association ' . 82.00 

" " Woman's Christian Association, .... 125.00 

" " By the Ladies for General Hospital, . . . 194.50 

" " " " " " Orphan Asylum, . . . 114.00 

" " " " " " Home of the Friendless, . . 60.00 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of this Church, . . 217.30 

For Wells Street Chapel, too. 00 

Chaplain Cook's Salary, ] . 25.00 

Press Missions, 30.00 



Total amount raised by all agencies, and for all purposes, $12,585 .74 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 

OF THE CHURCH AND CONGREGATION. 



Explanations. — Two names connected by a brace (— ■ — ) signify husband and wife ; Prof, sig- 
nifies Church member admitted on profession of faith; Let., on letter from sister Churches; Cong:, 
member of the congregation. 

Abel, Miss Salina Mary. Prof. 176 Sycamore street. 

Adams, Wllliam H. Prof. ) A/r . 

Adams, Mrs. Annie W. Prof. [ 45 Manner street. 

Adams, Mrs. Mary (Mrs. Edwin S). Prof. 36 Bowery. 

Adriance, J. V. S., and wife. Prof. .... Out on Clinton street. 

Ainsteth, Jacob, Jr. Prof. .213 Clinton street. 

Alberger, Mrs. Louisa F. Let. 1342 Main street. 

Alberger, Miss Louisa C. Let 1342 Main street. 

Alberger, John L. Prof. \ Q n 1 

Alberger Mrs. Mary R. Prof, f • • • • • 1 181 Delaware street. 
Arthur, Alexander. Cong. ) . 

Arthur, Mrs. Jane Wallace. Cong, \ • • • • 1285 Mam street. 
Arthur, William Henry. (Son.) Prof. .... 1285 Main street. 

Let] 40 East Mo« street. 

Ault, Robert A. G. (Son.) Prof. . . . .40 East Mohawk street. 

Ault, George F. (Son.) Prof. 40 East Mohawk street. 

Ayer, Erastus W. Let. . . ' . . ... 232 East Swan street. 



Baker, Charles H. (Elder.) Prof. ) ... 

Baker, Mrs. Jennie L. Prof. \ ' ' ' ' 292 \ irgmia street. 

Baker, Mrs. Eliza. Let. Griffin's Mills. 

Baker, Anrrevv M. Prof. 328 Ellicott street. 

Baker, Ransom R. Prof. ) ^ r , T . . ~ ) 27 Seventh 

r. , rrD M a,^,,. u.nv r Prof, as Miss Amelia Dinwoodie. [ J \ 
Baker, Mrs. Amelia Mary. ) ) street. 

Balcom, Miss Tillie A. Prof. 1540 Main street. 

Bancroft, W! G. Cong. ) , ■ , 

Bancroft, Mrs. Ruth W. Let. f • • • • • 96 Ellicott street. 

Bancroft, George. Let Detroit. 

Banks, Mrs. Sarah B. Prof. Abbott's Road. 

Barker, Mrs. Minerva N. Let .98 Morgan street. 

Barker, Miss Sara A. Let. . . ... . . , 98 Morgan street. 

Barker, Miss Ella D. Prof. 98 Morgan street. 

Barker, Miss Ida M. Prof. 98 Morgan street. 

Barrows, Dr. Wm. A. Cong. j • 

Barrows, Mrs. Mary E. Prof. (Miss Elsworth.) ) ' * 229 rearl street> 
Bell, William. Cong. . . . . . . . 16 Blossom street. 

Bell, Mrs. Mary E. Prof. (Wife of Robert W.) . . 320 Prospect av. 
Benedict, Miss Sarah F. Prof. . . . . .175 Eleventh street. 

Bedford, Mrs. Emily P. (Miss Phillips.) Prof. . 156 N. William street. 

Bettis, Henry A. Cong. ) OOD „ 

Bettis, Mrs. Marilla B Let. f 888 Pros P ect av - 

Bettis, Mrs. Sally. Let 888 Prospect av. 

Bingham, Charles F. Cong. ) n . 

Bingham, Mrs. Martha S. Prof. (Miss Sudderick.) f ' 419 JJelaware street - 



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BlXBY, JAMES W. Let. ) Whitnev nlace 
Bixby, Mrs. Frances B. Let. \ 230 wmtne y P lace - 

Bixby, James A. Prof. 230 Whitney place. 

Bixby, Ambrose S. Prof. 230 Whitney place. 

Blakely, Miss Matilda E. Prof. 308 Maryland street. 

Blossom, Miss Emily E. Prof. .... 360 North Dvision street. 

Board, Francis A. Let 50 East Swan street. 

Boorman, Edward. Let. ) „ Q c -p.. . . , 

tv/t at 0™.^™ t <- c • 18 South Division street. 

Boorman, Mrs. Mary Spencer. Let. ) 

Boutelle, Lucius. Let. ) , , , , 

Boutelle! Mrs. E. Adelaide. Let. [ ' ' ' • 5i East Eagle street. 

Bowen Seth W Prof. ) . . . . East Aurora, N. Y. 

Bowen, Mrs. Sarah H. Prof. ) 

Bristol, Edward. Let Brockport, N. Y. 

Bristol, Mrs. Carrie. Let. (Wife of William.) . . 65 West Tupper. 
Brown, Mrs. Phcebe P. Prof. 

Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Mrs. Nathaniel.) Let. . 144 East Swan street. 
Brown, Albert G. (Son.) Prof. .... 144 East Swan street. 

Brown, Miss Maria Louisa. Prof. (Mrs. Adsit.) . . Hornellsville. 

Brown Myron E Cong / ... 156 Clinton street. 

Brown, Mrs. Salina. Prof. \ D 

Brown, Mrs. Eliza Sarah. Let. . . . . .48 Seventh street. 

Brown, Miss Sarah E. Prof. 48 Seventh street. 

Brown, Tohn H. Let. } tQ „ rp . 
Brown, Mrs. Emily J. Let. \ 183 Tenth street. 

Brown, William S. Prof. [ Ef 

Brown, Mrs. Mary E. Cong. $ ' * 57 ^ner street. 

Brown, Willard W. Let. ) • T ,i „ -p 1 

Brown, Mrs. S. Emma B. Let. \ 94 Johnson Park. 

Brown, Lewis H Cong. ) 116 E. Eagle street. 

Brown, Mrs. Ellen. Cong. ) h 

Brown, Miss Ellen. (Sister.) Cong 50 East Swan street. 

Brown, Miss Susie E. Prof. . . . . 204 North Division street. 

Brown, Charles E Cong ) 670 Elm street. 

Brown, Mrs. Eliza J. Prof. ) 

Brown, Albert T. Cong. ) 6 M . 

Brown, Mrs. Eva M. Cong. \ ' 017 Mam street ' 

Brooker, Mrs. Margaret. Prof. . . . Michigan street, opp. William. 
Bruce, Harlow. Cong. [ Ellicott street 

Bruce, Mrs. Mabel M. Let. \ ' ' " * - ' • 102 ^mcott street. 

Bruce, Miss Emma H. Prof. 102 Ellicott street. 

Bruce, Geo. W. Prof. 102 Ellicott street. 

Brundige, Charles G. Let. ) , Q -k T . . , 

Brundige, Mrs. Charlotte M. Let. \ ' ' ' 608 Nla S ara street 

Brush, Mrs. Sarah E. Let. ... . 61 South Division street. 

Brush, Dr. Edward N. Prof. ... . 8 South Division street. 

Brush, Alexander. Cong. ) ~ AT c 4 * 

■d„ it tv/t o \ r 1 Y . . - . . 82 North Swan street. 
Brush, Mrs. Sarah A. Let. \ 

Brush, Milton A. Cong. ) c -,-v ■ . . „ + 

■r, T\ /r a t 220 South Division street. 

Brush, Mrs. Adaline. Let. ) v 

Brush, Jesse. Let. ) 8 p . . 

Brush, Mrs. Margaret. Let. C *9 8 ren y street - 
Buckland, Geo. W. Prof. ) AT -rv • • „ . . 

Buckland! Mrs. Mary P. Prof. \ ■ ' ' 299 North Division street. 

Buel, Frederick. Cong ) p rf 

Buel, Mrs. Eliza M. Let. ) ' 

Buel, Miss Jennie E. Prof. 272 Pearl street. 

Buel, Miss Harriet M. Prof. 272 Pearl street. 

Burrows, Mrs. Maria F. (Wife of Judge B.) Let. . 416 Franklin street. 



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Butler, John. (Colored.) Let 
Butts, Stephen B. Cong. 
Butts, Mrs. Caroline L. Let 



. 165 Elm street. 
118 Morgan street. 



Calhoun, Miss Sarah A. 

Carpenter, Mrs. Jennie. (Wife of John.) Prof. 
Cass, Miss Elizabeth. (Mrs. Holden.) Prof. 
Catlin, Miss Julia H. (Now Mrs. Gilbert.) Prof. 

Chalmers, Miss Julia A. Let 

Chatman, James W. Prof. 
Chatman, Mrs. Sarah L. Prof. 
Chapin, Mrs. Emily R. (Crittenden.) Prof. 
Chichester, James L. Let. ) 
Chichester, Mrs. Lanah. Let. f 
Chichester, Miss Mary E. Prof. 
Childs, Henry. Let. 
Childs, Mrs. Elizabeth H. 
Childs, Miss Catharine W, 
Childs, Miss Elizabeth H. 



Let 86 Delaware street. 

79 East Eagle street. 
95 Bird avenue. 
. 450 East Seneca street. 
60 Niagara street. 

70 College street. 

236 South Division street. 

188 South Division street. 

r88 South Division street. 

141 Delaware street. 

141 Delaware street. 



Let. 
Prof. 
Prof. 



Prof. 



Let. 



Christian, Mrs. Sally. Prof. 
Clark, Wm. H. Cong. ) 
Clark, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Prof, f 
Clark, Martin. Prof. 
Clark, Miss Arrietta. 
Clark, Mrs. Mary. (Seth.) 
Cobb, Frank. Cong. ) 
Cobb, Mrs. Charlotte. Prof. \ 
Cochran, Miss Judith P. Let. 
Cochran, Joseph. Let. 
Comstock, Elisha. Let. I 
Comstock, Mrs. Harriet A. Let. J 
Comstock, Miss May C. Prof, and Let 
Connaugfty, Miss Sarah. Cong. 
Cook, Miss Abby P. Prof. 
Cook, Miss Maria H. Prof. 
Cook, Mrs. Maria Arthur. Let. . 
Cooper, Robert C. Prof. 

Copp, Mrs. Rebecca. Let 

Cottier, Mrs. Cora L. P. (As Miss Spencer.) 
Crandall, Mrs. Lodema. Prof. . . . . 
Crandall, De Forest. Prof. ) 
Crandall, Mrs. Laura C. Let. (Mrs. Lathrop.) f 
Crittenden, Mrs. Delia R. Let 
Crittenden, Charles T. (Son.) 
Crittenden, Mrs. Hattie A. Prof. 
Crittenden, Miss Delia A. Prof. 
Currie, Mrs. Anna J. Cong. 
Curtiss, Seir. Cong. }_ 
Curtiss, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Let. ) 

Davidson, Samuel. Let. 
Davidson, Mrs. Jessie. Let. (Mrs. Dawson 
Davis, James L. G. Cong. 
Davis, Miss Emily S.- Cong, 
Davis, Mrs. Dolly. Let. 
Davis, Richard W. Let. 
Deane, Elisha C. Cong. 
Deane, Mrs. Sarah P. Prof. 
Dellenbaugh, Dr. Samuel. Cong. 
Dellenbaugh, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. 
Dewey, Mrs. Harriet \V. Let. 



141 Delaware street. 
Erie street Depot. 

149 Clinton street. 

149 Clinton street. 
149 Clinton street. 
. Prov. Asylum. 

. 251 Seneca street. 

1285 Main street. 
737 Delaware street. 
No. 12 Chapin Block. 
17 West Swan street. 
17 West Swan street. 
374 Niagara street. 
. Niagara Falls. 

Niagara Falls. 
1285 Main street. 
Niagara cor. of Morgan. 

Eden, N. Y. 



Prof. 



(Miss (Murray.) 



8 Prospect avenue. 

151 Court street. 

69 Mariner street. 

69 Mariner street. 

210 Hudson street. 
144 East Eagle street. 

265 East Eagle street. 

252 Clinton street. 

96 East Swan street. 

96 East Swan street. 
213 Pearl street. 

45 Park street. 

245 Ellicott street. 
75 East Eagle street. 



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Dickie, Benjamin. Prof. 
Dodds, George. Cong. 
Dodds, Mrs. Agnes. Cong. 
Dorman, G. W. Cong. 



Let. J 



Prof. \ 



Prof. 
Prof. 

Let. 



(Mrs 
(Mrs 



•of. 



Dorman, Mrs. Catharine. 
Dougherty, Geo. E. Cong. 
Dougherty, Mrs. Margaret E 
Dowd, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. 
Dowd, Miss Ida E. Prof. 
Dudley, Joseph R. Cong. { 
Dudley, Mrs. Mary F. Let. ) 
Dunbar, George W. Prof. 

Eels, Charles. Let. 
Eels, Mrs. Mary J. Let. . 
Eels, Miss Mary F. Prof. 
Egberts, Mrs. H. W. Let. . 
Egberts, Egbert, Jr. Let. 
Egberts, Mrs. Mary. Prof. 
Egberts, Miss Wilhelmina. 
Egberts, Garrett H. Let. 
Egberts, Miss Hannah H. 
Egberts, Miss Caroline G. 
ElswortH, Alfred B. Let. 
Elsworth, Mrs. Sarah A. 
Elsworth, John F. Prof. 
Ely, E. Sterling. Let. 
Ely, Mrs. Theresa N. Let. 
Evans, Lewis E. Cong. 
Evans, Miss Maggie. Cong, 
Evans, Miss Charlotte. P 
Evans, Mrs. H. B. Let. 

Fales, Geo. P. Let. 
Fales, Mrs. Emma L. Let 
Fargo, Francis F. Let. 
Fargo, Mrs. Marietta P. 
Fay, Dr. Levi. Let. (_ 
Fay, Mrs. Sarah M. Let. \ 
Fay, Edward. Let. 
Fields, Samuel H. Let. 
Fields, Mrs. Mary J. Let 
Fields, Miss Hattie W. Prof. 
Fields, Miss Mary A. (Colored.) 
Fielder, Francis. Cong. 
Fielder, Mrs. Ruth. Cong. 
Fisher, Miss Philena B. (Wid.) Let. 
Fleming, T. W. Cong. 
Fleming, Miss Mary A. Cong. 
Flynn, Geo. W. Prof. 
Flynn, Mrs. Mary E. (McNish.) 
Fowler, Edward H. Prof. [ 
Fowler, Mrs. Louisa. Let. \ 
Frazer, Thomas. Cong. 
Frazer, Elizabeth A. Prof. 
Frazer, Miss Amelia G. Prof. 
Frazer, Miss Mary Jane. Prof. 
Frazer, Miss Elizabeth. Cong 
Freeman, Mrs. Helen J. Let. 
French, Thomas B. Prof. ) 
French, Mrs. Julia A. Prof. ) 



Let. (Mrs. Venerman.) 



WlLKIE.) . 

Mermeld.) 



Let j" 



Cong. 



Prof. 



244 North Division street. 
253 East Eagle street. 

209 East Swan street. 

79 East Eagle street. 

259 East Swan street. 
259 East Swan street. 

827 Delaware street. 

19 West Tupper street. 

West Alden, N. Y. 
. West Alden, N. Y. 
259 South Division street. 

148 North street. 

. 148 North street. 

114 North street. 
808 Michigan street. 
601 Elm street. 
St. Paul, Minn. 

34 Mariner street. 

34 Manner street. 

Cheektowaga. 

18.6 Franklin street. 
186 Franklin street. 
186 Franklin street. 



180 Carolina street. 

617 Main street. 

224 Clinton street. 

224 Clinton street. 

564 Clinton street. 

. 564 Clinton street. 
172 Elm street. 

307 Elm street. 

198 Niagara street. 
17 West Chippewa street. 
17 West Chippewa street. 

432 Michicgan street. 
64 Johnson Place. 

198 West Mohawk street. 

198 West Mohawk street. 
198 West Mohawk street. 

122 Niagara street. 
. 50 Oak street. 





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French, Mrs. Mary R. Prof. (Balcom.) . . .1540 Main street. 
French, Henry C. Prof. ) # 82 West Huron street. 
French, Mrs. Era J. Cong. ) 

Fryer, Mrs. Hester. Cong .96 East Swan street. 

Gething, J. P. Cong.) 26 Whitney place. 

Gething, Mrs. Cong. J 

Gibson, Miss Isabella. Prof. 85 Whitney place. 

Gilbert, Mrs. Julia H. Prof. (Miss Catlin.) . . .450 Seneca street. 

Gilpin, Miss Sally S. Let 72 North Division street. 

Gowans, Peter Prof. ) ... 801 Ferry street. 
Gowans, Mrs. E. W. Let. f 3 
Gowans, John Prof ) 222 North D i v i s i on street. 
Gowans, Mrs. Emily F. Prof. ) 

Gowans, William W. Prof. ) .... 887 Prospect avenue. 
Gowans Mrs. Isabella. Prof.) 

Gould, Mrs. Melissa. Lei 157 Twelfth street. 

Graves, Mrs. Jane. Let Niagara Falls. 

Gregg, Willard. Prof. ) 
Gregg, Mrs. Elizabeth A. C. Prof. J 

Guild, Joseph. Let ) ; 76 East Swan street. 

Guild, Mrs. Susan. Let. ) 

Guild, Alexander. Cong.) 76 East Swan street. 

Guild, Mrs. Cong. ) 

Gurney, William H. Cong. ) Pearl t t 

Gurney, Mrs. W. H. Cong. ) 

Guiteau, Mrs. Sarah B. Let. . . . .481 Washington street. 

Haig, Mrs. Jeannette. Prof. 37 Eleventh street. 

Haines, George R. Cong ) 506 Pearl street. 

Haines, Mrs. Helen M. Cong. ) 

Hale, Henry H. Let. | 1285 Main street. 

Hale, Mrs. Roxana Arthur. Let. ) J 

Hall, Mrs. Harriet. Let. Cold Springs. 

Hamilton, Charles J. Prof. ) ... 164 West Huron street. 
Hamilton, Mrs. Margaret G. Let. ) * 

Hambleton, Robert S. Prof. 256 Main street. 

Hammond, Miss Mary. Prof. 44° Main street. 

Hammond, Mrs. Harriet S. Prof. .... 256 Allen street. 

Hammond, Thomas C. Prof. 54 Seneca street. 

Hancock, Lucius Cong ) 2g p ct avenue . 

Hancock, Mrs. Mary B. Prof. ) ■ ~> r 

Hancock, Mrs. Mary E. Prof. 283 Prospect avenue. 

Hancock, Miss Carlie W. Prof. 283 Prospect avenue. 

Harr, Miss Sarah N. Prof. . . . . 173 South Division street. 
Harvey, Miss Sarah M. Prof. 

Haskell, M. N Cong. { . ... 145 College street. 
Haskell, Mrs. Cornelia L. Cong. ) & 
Hastings, Wm. B. Prof. j T „ A nao , nm t . t 
Hastings, Mrs. Sarah B. Prof.} 176 Dearborn street. 

Hazard, Calvin P. Let. j. 37 sixth street. 

Hazard, Mrs. Louisa F. Let. ) JJ 

Hazard, Miss Carrie L. Prof. 37 Sixth street. 

Heacock, Mrs. Nancy R. Prof. ... ... 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Seth G. Prof. 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Nannie S. Prof. 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Reuben B. Prof. 191 Franklin street. 







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Henderson, James M. Prof. 
Henderson, Miss Lizzie Lewis. Let. 
Hendricks, Mrs. Margaret. Prof. . 
Hendricks, Miss Anna. Prof. . 
Hickox, Henry B. Cong. 
Hickox, Mrs. Anah M. Let. 
Hickox, Miss Catherine G. Prof. . 
Hickox, Miss Harriet H. Prof. 
Hildebrand, Mrs. Margaret. Cong. 
Hopkins, Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Gowans.) 
Horton, Cornelius M. Let. I 
Horton, Mrs. Caroline D. Let. J * 
Horton, Miss Helen M. Prof. 
Horton, Miss Albertina M. Prof. . 
Horton, Miss Margaretta. Prof. . 
Howard, Miss Amelia. (Colored.) Prof. 
Howell, John and Mrs. Cong. 
Howell, Edgar W. Prof. 
Hoyt, Henry A. Prof. ) 
Hoyt, Mrs. Mary J. Prof. ) 
Hubbell, Henry S. Cong. 
Hubbell, Mrs. Henry S. Let. 
Humason, Gamaliel. Let. 
Humason, Mrs. Eliza A. Let. 
Hungerford, Mrs. Hannah. Prof. . 
Hunter, S. M. Prof. 
Hunter, Mrs. Ella H. (Brown.) Prof. 
Husted, Edwin S. Cong. ) 
Husted, Mrs. Edith. Prof. \ ' 



Prof. 



276 East Eagle street. 

247 Sixth street. 
247 Sixth street. 

256 Allen street. 

256 Allen street. 
256 Allen street. 
252 Carolina street. 
164 Franklin street. 

399 Franklin street. 

399 Franklin street. 
399 Franklin street. 
399 Franklin street. 
. 165 Elm street 
191 South Division street. 
191 South Division street. 

407 East Eagle street. 

. 60 Delaware street. 

180 South Division street. 
11 Whitney place. 
Avon, N. Y. 

288 Jersey street. 



Inman, Mrs. C. Let. 
Inman, Geo. H. Prof. 



Jeffrey, Mrs. Clarissa. Prof. . 
Johnson, Andrew M. Let. 
Johnson, Mrs. Margaret M. Let. 
Johnson, Dr. Thomas M. Let. . 
Johnson, Ralph. Cong. 
Johnson, Mrs. Helen R. Prof. 
Judson, Billa M. Let. ) 
Judson, Mrs. Mary L. Cong, j" 



Kennedy, Miss Anna. Prof. 
Kenyon, Mrs. Mary S. Let. 
Kenyon, Miss Carrie S. Let. . 
Kenyon, Miss Ada M. Let. 
Keys, Mrs. Lannie Darrow. Cong. 
Knight, W. M. Prof. 



Ladd, James S. Prof. 
Lampman, Henry P. Cong. 
Lampman, Mrs. L. C. Prof! 
Lander, Miss Lucy F. Let. 
Lapey, John. Prof. 
Lapey, Mrs. Artemisia W. Let. 
Lapey, Miss Louisa M. Prof. 
Lapp, Isaac G. Let. 



105 Oak street. 
105 Oak street. 



55 Whitney place. 
262 Jersey street. 
10 South Division street. 
144 East Eagle street. 

440 Pearl street. 

411 Main street 
49 West Huron street. 
49 West Huron street. 
49 West Huron street. 
108 East Swan street. 
Main street corner of Erie. 

170 Niarara street. 

98 East Eagle street. 

145 South Division street. 

62 Clinton street 

62 Clinton street. 
143 Porter street. 



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Larned, J. N. Cong. 
Larned, Mrs. Frances A. K. Let. 
Larned, Henry S. Prof, and Dis. Cong 
Larned, Mrs. Emma Frances. Cong. 
Lawrence, Samuel N. Let. 
Lawrence, Mrs. Harriet L. Let 
Lawrence, Miss Hattie L. Prof. 
Lee, Miss Mary E. Let. ; 
Lewis, Loran L. Cong. 
Lewis, Mrs. Charlotte P. Prof. 
Lewis, George L. Prof. . 
Lewis, Miss Lulu M. Cong. 
Linen, John R. Let. 
Linen, Mrs. Mary F. Cong. 
Little, Mrs. Rachel. Let. 
Little, Miss Ida. Prof. 
Locke, Philander B. Prof. 
Locke, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. 
Long, Edwin N. Prof. 
Lovel, Miss Laura G. Let. 
Lowe, Mrs. Cornelia. Let. 
Lowe, Miss Ella C. Prof. 
Lynd, Adam. Prof. ) 
Lynd, Mrs. Agnes N. Prof. ) 
Lynd, James. Prof. 
Lynd, Miss Martha. Prof. 



263 Maryland street. 
264 Connecticut street. 

444 Pearl street. 

444 Pearl street. 
182 Clinton street. 

309 Franklin street. 

Yale College. 
309 Franklin street. 

192 East Eagle street. 

in East Eagle street, 
in East Eagle street. 

201 East Swan street. 

. 34 Vary street. 

384 Main street. 
. - 384 Main street. 

263 East Eagle street. 

263 East Eagle street. 
263 East Eagle street. 



Let. J 



Let. 



Mabie, M. T. Cong. 
Mabie, Mrs. M. R. Cong 
Mabie, Miss Emma. Prof. . 
Mabie, Miss Ida B. Cong. 
Maglauchlin, John J. Prof. 
Maglauchlin, Mrs. Adeline S 
Manly, Miss Melinda. Prof. 
Marvin, Mrs. Julia R. Let. 
Mason, Seth L. Let. 
Mason, Mrs. Ann. Let 
Mason, Miss Mary. Prof. 
Mason, Frank B. Prof. 
McKee, William. Cong. 
McFetridge, Miss Jennie, 
McIntyre, James. Cong. . 
McIntyre, Miss Jesse. Prof. 
McIntyre, Miss Jane. Prof. 
McIntyre, Miss Agnes. Prof. 
McIntyre, Clara Estella. (Now M 
McNish, William. Let. 
McNish, Mrs. Jane. Let 
McNish, Miss Matilda. Prof. 
McNish, David B. Let. \ 
McNish, Mrs. Lucy L. Cong. ) 
McVean, Mrs. Sarah. Let. 
McVean, Miss Jeanette. Prof. (Mrs 
McVean, Miss Christina. Prof. 
McWilliams, John J. Let. 
McWilliams, Mrs. Essa Norton. Let 

Mead, A. G. Cong 

Meldrum, Alexander. Prof. 
Meldrum, Mrs. A. E. Prof. 



Rice.) 



Earp.) 



Prof 



109 East Eagle street. 

109 East Eagle street. 
109 East Eagle street. 

74 Mariner street. 

. 179 Franklin street. 
. Washington, D. C. 

212 East Eagle street. 

street, 
street, 
street, 
street, 
street, 
street, 
street, 
street. 
N. Y. 



212 East Eagle 
212 East Eagle 
212 East Eagle 
473 Virginia 
713 Ellicott 
713 Ellicott 
713 Ellicott 
713 Ellicott 
Elma, 



432 Michigan street. 

432 Michigan street. 

231 East Eagle street. 

In Philadelphia. 
In Philadelphia. 
172 Whitney place. 

170 Seventh street. 

927 Washington street. 

. 949 Delaware street. 



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Melling, Mrs. Phcebe. Let. 
Merritt, J. N. Cong. } 
Merritt, Mrs. Helen M. Prof, f 
Merritt, Miss Cora J. Prof. 
Miller, Miss Harriet. Prof. 
Miller, Mrs. Louise. Cong. (Mrs. C. W. 
Mills, Robert. Prof. 
Mills, Mrs. Margaret A. Prof. 
Mills, James H. Cong. 
Mills, Mrs. A. Maria. Cong 
Mills, Edward P. Cong. 
Miner, Dr. Julius F. Let. 
Miner, Mrs. Mary C. Let 
Miner, Miss Mary Estella. Prof. 
Miner, Worthington C. Prof. 
Monroe, Miss Hattie. (Now Mrs. Rhodes.) Prof 
Moore, Miss Adeline S. (Mrs. G. E. Sikes.) Prof. 
Moore, Chester. Cong. ) 
Moore, Mrs. C. D. Cong, f 
Moore, Miss Etta C. Prof. 
Morgan, Louis S. Let. 
Morgan, Mrs. Mary A. Let 
Muldon, Gerald. Prof. 
Muldon, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. 
Munce, James. Let. 
Munce, Mrs. James. Let 
Murdock, Mrs. Charlotte. Prof. 



277 Prospect avenue. 

302 North Division street. 

302 North Division street. 

21 Milnor street. 
225 Pearl street. 

182 Niagara street. 

74 North Pearl street. 

74 North Pearl street. 

978 Main street. 

978 Main street. 
978 Main street. 
Camillus, N. Y. 
238 Virginia street. 

180 East Swan street. 

180 East Swan street. 

291 Pearl street. 

69 Clinton street. 

. 49 Sixth street. 
102 South Division street. 



Let. 



Neller, John. Cong. 
Neller, Mrs. Ellen. (Miss Templeton.) 
Nichols, Merritt. Cong. ) 
Nichols, Mrs. Amelia. Let. ) 
Nichols, Miss Clara. (Now Mrs. Baker.) Prof. 
Nichols, Oren G. Prof. ) 
Nichols, Mrs. Ida V. M. Cong. \ 

Niles, Mrs. C. L. Let. 

North, Miss Laura B. Let. . . . 
Noxon, Mrs. Eliza. Cong. .... 



791 Genesee street. 

319 Prospect avenue. 

309 Prospect avenue. 

. 297 Oak street. 

177 Clinton street. 
Cheek towaga. 
225 Pearl street. 



Oatman, Geo. E. Let. ) n . ^ . 
Oatman, Mrs. Kate. Let. \ 290 Prospect avenue. 

Olver, Wm. Brent. Prof. ) 5, w , , 
Olver, Mrs. Elizabeth, Prof. \ 85 Whltne y P lace " 

Olver, Miss Jennie S. Prof. . . . • . . .85 Whitney place. 

ORR, George. Cong. ) Church street 

Orr, Mrs. Cong. \ ....... 34 ^nurcri street. 

8™;Mk N Euza's. Prcf,[ 147 Niagara street. 

Otto, Miss Eliza Corning. Prof. . . . . . 147 Niagara street. 

Otto, John, Jr. Prof. . 147 Niagara street. 

Ovens, Robert. Cong. ) , „ 

-Ovens, Mrs. Jeanette. Let. ) 61 Morgan street. 



Palmer, Miss Nellie C. Prof, and Let. ... 50 East Swan street. 

Parker, Mrs. Helen A. Let 148 Hudson street. 

Parker, Miss Eliza L. Prof. . . . . .148 Hudson street. 

Parker, Joshua W. Prof. . . . . . . 148 Hudson street. 



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Parr, George. Cong. 
Parr, Sarah M. Cong. 
Pease, Mrs. F. S. Cong. 
Penfold, Miss Mary Ann. Prof. 
Perkins, Mrs. Electa. (Mrs. Veile.) 
Pierce, Henry J. Prof. 
Pindar, Miss Mary E. Prof, 
Plumley, Edmund J. Let. 
Pltjmley, Mrs. Flora E. C. 
Pomroy, Perry. Let. 
Pooley, William. Prof. { 
Pooley, Mrs. M. A. Prof. J 
Porter, Mrs. Catherine. Let 
Preston, John R., Jr. Prof. 
Pryor, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. 



Prof. 



Pro 



Randall, Mrs. Sophrona. Let. 
Rankin, Henry. Cong. / 
Rankin, Mrs. Jane. Let. f 
Rea, Miss Elizabeth S. Prof. . 
Reed, Albert. Cong. i 
Reed, Mrs. Frances A. Cong. ) 
Richardson, E. K. Cong. \ 
Richardson, Mrs. Loretta H. Let. J 
Richardson, Miss Frank A. Prof. . 
Richardson, Wm. C, and wife, Mary J. 
Ripley, Miss Mary Ann. Prof. 
Rising, John P. Cong. 
Roese, Miss Minnie D. Prof. 
Roese, Henry. Prof. 
Rosenbury, Charles E. Let. 
Rosenbury, Mrs. Charlotte S. Let. 
Ross, Miss Cassie M. Prof. 
Rothfus, Miss Ruth. Prof. 
Rowley, Wm. W. Prof. ) 
Rowley, Mrs. Alice Louisa. Prof, j" 
Rowley, Alonzo. (Father.) Cong. . 
Rumsey, Miss Lucy Ann. Let. . 
Russell, Wm. C. Cong. ) 
Russell, Mrs. Margaret S. Prof. [ 
Russell, Mrs. Julina O. Prof. . 



Cong. 



Sargeant, Miss Sophie. Cong. 
Sawn, Edwin G. Prof. 
Sawn, Mrs. Emma M. Prof. 
Saxton, Elijah R. Cong. 
Saxton, Mrs. Seraphina. Let. 
Schermerhorn, I. M. Cong. 
Schermerhorn, Mrs. Catharine S. Prof. 
Schermerhorn, Miss Charlotte M. Let 
Schermerhorn, Mrs. Amia C. Let. (Mother of 
Schermerhorn, Asa B. M. Prof. 
Scheffer, Frank E. Cong. 

SCHEFFER, Mrs. CHRISTINA H. Prof. 

Schleiter, Charles. Prof. 
Schleiter, Mrs. Charles. Cong 
Sears, Mrs. Margaret A. Let. 
Sears, MisS Susan. (Mrs. Sizer.) Prof. 



144 Seventh street. 

Niagara and Hudson. 
159 Dodge street. 
172 Whitney place. 
. 55 Park place. 
18 Twelfth street. 

198 Prospect avenue. 

152 Sixth street. 

194 Prospect avenue. 

New York. 
278 Seneca street. 
25 Twelfth street. 



201 Pearl street. 
206 Swan street. 
432 East Eagle street. 
Brick Hotel, East Buffalo. 

• 593 Twelfth street. 

593 Twelfth street. 
142 Wilkeson street. 
24 West Chippewa street. 
61 South Division street. 
. 80 Sycamore street. 
. 80 Sycamore street. 



1 181 Delaware street. 
Maryland and Fifth streets. 

442 Pearl street. 

442 Pearl street. 
33 Delaware place. 

79 Seventh street. 

Cowlesville, N. Y. 



204 North Division street. 
191 East Eagle street. 

237 Swan street. 



180 Prospect avenue. 

180 Prospect avenue. 
M.) 180 Prospect avenue. 

. 194 North Division street. 

. 235 North Division street. 

132 West Chippewa street. 
132 West Chippewa street. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



Shaw, Edwin A. Prof. ) 
Shaw, Mrs. Clara C. Prof, y 
Shaw, Albert W. Prof. 
Shaw, Winfield S. Let. 
Shaw, Mrs. Maria T. Let 
Shaw, Miss Isabella M. Prof. 
Shaw, Clark R. Prof. 
Shaw, Dr. Merrill H. Let. 
Shaw, Miss Nellie E. Prof. 
Sheldon, Jerome B. and wife, Caroline. Cong 
Shepherd, John E. Prof. i 
Shepherd, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Cong. ) 
Sherwood, Homer C. Let. T 
Sherwood, Mrs. Helen M. Prof. \ 
Shumway, Mrs. Marie A. Prof. 

Sibley, Mrs. M. J 

Sibley, Mrs. Cora. (Miss Cora Curtis.) 
Sikes, Mrs. Susan L. Let. 
Sikes, Miss Florence A. Prof. . 
Sikes, Frederick G. Prof. 
Sikes, George R. Prof. . . . 
Sikes, Edwin. Prof. ) 
Sikes, Mrs. Louisa C. Prof, f 
Sikes, Edwin P. Prof. 
Sikes, Simeon R. Let. 

Sikes, Mrs. Ella. (Miss Crandall.) Prof. 
Simonds, Mrs. Lucinda. Let. 
Smith, Frances A. Let. 
Smith, Miss Phcebe. Prof. 
Smith, George H. Cong. ) 
Smith, Mrs. Helen M. Prof. $ 
Snaith, John S. Prof. 
Snaith, Mrs. Eleanor M. Prof. 
Snyder, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. . 
Snyder, Miss Eva. Let. 
Spencer, Seth S. Cong 
Spencer, Mrs. Agnes J. 
Squier, Geo. L. Prof. 
Squier, Mrs. Frances C 
Start, Mrs. Sarah Ann. 
Stearns, Geo. C. Cong. 
Stearns, Mrs. Mary R. 
Stearns, Geo. R. Prof. 
Stearns, Chas. P. Prof. 
Stebbins, William H. Cong 
Steele, Geo. C. Cong. 
Steele, Mrs. Emma C. Prof. 
Stephenson, Geo. C. H. Prof. . 
Stockbridge, Miss Fannie E. Prof. 
Strickland, Russell K. Prof. ^ 
Strickland, Mrs. Ellen. Prof. ) 
Struthers, Thomas. Let. ) 
Struthers, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. ) 
Struthers, Miss Jean. Prof. 
Struthers, Miss Lizzie. Prof. . 
Stout, Miss Adelaide. Let. 
Sudderick, John. Prof. 
Sudderick, Mrs. Margaret. Prof. 
Swales, Geo. A. Prof. 
Swartz, Frederick. Prof. 



Prof. 

Let. 
Prof. 
) 

Let. J 



1358 Main street. 

Yale College. 

33 Delaware place. 

33 Delaware place. 
33 Delaware place. 
63 South Division street. 
63 South Division street. 
97 East Eagle street. 

137 Sixth street. 

270 Georgia street. 

313 North Division street. 
21 Eleventh street. 
265 East Eagle street. 
217 Linwood avenue. 
217 Linwood avenue. 
217 Linwood avenue. 
217 Linwood avenue. 

298 Niagara street. 

298 Niagara street. 
180 Carolina street. 
180 Carolina street. 
80 East Eagle street. 
191 William street. 
38 Eleventh street. 

123 Sixth street. 

251 Sixth street. 

118 Virginia street. 
118 Virginia street. 

61 Morgan street. 

13 13 Main street. 

. 96 Oak street. 

35 North Pearl street. 

35 North Pearl street. 
35 North Pearl street. 
652 Main street. 

142 Wilkeson street. 

320 Pearl street. 
259 South Division street. 

27 Seventh street. 

. 431 Oak street. 

. 431 Oak street. 
. 431 Oak street. 
1423 Main street. 

18 Twelfth street. 

184 Carroll street. 
138 Lemon street. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 27 



Taylor, Lorenz, and Mrs. Sarah. Cong. . . . 1067 William street. 

Thayer, Nathan W. Prof. ) TO , rn n a „ a of _ + 

Thayer, Mrs. Rosa Krettner. Let. f 124 College street. 

Thompson, John Prof. ) g fa m . . 
Thompson, Mrs. Elizabeth N. Let. ) /v 
Thompson, Geo. B. Cong. ) North Diyi . 
Thompson, Mrs. Annie E. Let. ) 1 

Trowbridge, Dr. John S. Cong. ) Franklin street 
Trowbridge, Mrs. Abby E. Let. f ■ 191 rranklm street - 

Turner, Adam. Let. ) _ _ ™fu-* 1 

Turner! Mrs. Euphemia C. Let. \ ' ■ ' ' 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Anne E. Let 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Agnus C. Let. 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Jennie H. Let 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, William. Prof. 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Rachel. Prof. 191 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Euphemia C. Prof. 191 Whitney place 



Van Buren, James. Let. 
Van Buren, Mrs. Sarah Jane. Prof. 
Van Velsor, John. Cong. 
Van Velsor, Mrs. Josephine. Cong. 
Vaux, Mrs. Alphreda. Let. 
Vosler, Miss Racelia L. (Mrs. Miller.) 



. 192 Franklin street. 

384 Main street. 
97 Arcade, Rochester, N. Y. 



Col'd. 



Let. 



Wade, William. Prof. 
Wade, Mrs. Jane. Let. 
Wadleigh, Willard J. Cong. 
Wadleigh, Mrs. Lizzie A. Cong. 
Walker, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. 
Walrath, C. K. Cong. 

Walrath, Mrs. Agnes J. Let. (Miss McNish.) 
Warner, Thomas, Cong. \ 
Warner, Mrs. \ 
Warren, Seth W. Let. 
Warren, Mrs. Henrietta H. 
Warring, Mrs. Ann M. Cong. 
Watson, Miss Frances. Let. (now Mrs. Austin.) 
Wells, David B. Cong. 
Wells, Mrs. Mary M. Cong. 
Wells, John Charles. Cong.- .... 
Wehser, Miss Emma. Prof. . 
Wehser, Miss Louisa. Prof. .... 
Westcott. Byron H. Cong. ) 
Westcott, Mrs. Jennie E. Prof. (Miss Barker.) f 
Westfall, Augustus M. Let. 
Westfall, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Let 
Wheeler, Miss Jennie. Prof. 
Wheeler, Royal. Let. 
Wheeler, Mrs. Sarah. Let. 
Whitcomb, Dr. Nathan W. Prof. 
Whitcomb, Mrs. Mary Louise. Prof. 
Whitcomb, Miss Cora. (Mrs. L. A. Sirret.) Prof 
Whitcomb, Miss Mary. (Now Mrs. L. H. Best.) Prof. 
White, Mrs. Margaret. Let. . 
White, Leonard. Cong. 
White, Mrs. L. Cong. 
Whitney, Milo A. Cong. 
Whitney, Mrs. Mary H. Con 



193 



425 Sixth street. 

114 Carolina street. 

. 172 Elm street. 
430 Michigan street. 

274 Clinton street. 

38 Linwood avenue. 

62 Clinton street. 
San Francisco, Cal. 

North Division street. 

170 Sixth street. 
896 Jefferson street. 
. 896 Jefferson street. 

98 Morgan street. 

337 Delaware street. 

234 West Genesee street. 
Main, near LeRoy avenue, 
Buffalo Plains. 

24 Erie street. 

195 Virginia street. 
50 Cottage street. 
62 Clinton street. 

78 Seventh street. 
. 476 Franklin street. 



28 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



(Now Mrs 

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Let 



Whittet, J. Lewis. Cong. 
Whittet, Mrs. Lydia E. Prof, 
Wight, Elijah W. Cong. 
Williams, Dr. Avery. Let. 
Williams, Mrs. Eliza. Let. 
Williams, George A. Prof. 
Williams, William O. Let. ) 
Williams, Mrs. Anna. Let. [ 
Williams, Edward O. Let. 
Williams, Adin W. Prof. / 
Williams, Mrs. Mary C. Prof, j" 
Williams, Kate E. Prof. 
Wilson, Robert. Let. 
Wilson, Mrs. Hannah J. 
Wilson, John W. Let. 
Wilson, Mrs. Mary W. Let 
Wilson, George S. Cong. )_ 
Wilson, Mrs. Maggie A. Cong, f 
Winn, Armes C. Prof. 
Winn, Mrs. Caroline E. Prof. 
Wing, Charles J. Cong. ) 
Wing, Mrs. Susan E. Prof, f 
Wing, Charles H. Cong. I 
Wing, Mrs. Annie. Let. ) 
Winship, Aaron N. Cong. 
Winship, Mrs. Sarah Ann. 
Winship, Howard. (Son.) 
Woods, William V. Prof. 
Woods, Mrs. Phcebe Annie 



Let. 
Prof. 



Wright, Miss Emma A. Let. 



Let.f 



Yaw, Miss Katie. Prof. 
Young, Lizzie Carrie. Prof. 
York, Mrs. Henrietta L. Prof. 



130 Sixth street. 
506 Pearl street. 
78 Glenwood avenue. 
78 Glenwood avenue. 
229 Connecticut street. 

213 Pearl street: 
. 92 Prospect avenue. 
Chas. Guild.) 

. Public school 32, Cedar street. 

16 Chapin block, West Swan street. 

374 Niagara street. 

11 Whitney Place. 
11 Whitney Place. 

217 Hudson street. 

. 44 Allen street. 

12 South Division street. 
12 South Division street. 

. 33 Oak street. 
75 South Division street. 

286 Clinton street. 
1285 Main street. 
. 183 Franklin street. 



(Mrs. Seaman.) 



HISTORICAL CATALOGUE 



OF 

Lafayette St. Presbyterian Church 



WITH THE 



Pastor's 30TH Anniversary Sermon, 



AND 



A SUMMARY OF THE CHURCH'S HISTORY. 



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LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



77 



RECAPITULATION, 



Whole number of names in the Catalogue 1,663 

Whole number of names on the Church Roll 1,39-8 

The number admitted on letter from sister churches 713 

The number admitted on profession of faith 685 

The number who have taken letters of dismission 530 

Number who have died while in the Church, in as far as can be ascertained 164 - 

Number who have died since being dismissed as far as is known 17 

Number of those who never have been dismissed (according to the record), 

whose history and whereabouts are entirely unknown 111 

Number constituting the presettt membership, whose identity and present 

residence are certain 509 

The number comprehended under the term Congregation, including chil- 
dren who are old enough to attend the Sunday School, in as far as 

information has been given 265 

The number who have left the city, or who go to other churches, or to no 
church, and whose residences are known, who have never taken letters 

of dismissal 85 

The number of young ladies who have married since uniting with the 

Church 113 

Whole number of Communion Seasons, from the first, which occurred 

Sunday, May 3, 1846, to April 9, 1876, inclusive (30 years) 157 

An average number for each year 46% 

An average number for each Communion Season 9 

The largest number admitted during any one year, was in 1864 — admitted 105 

The next and nearly equal number, was in 1869 104 

The third highest number, was in 1866 .- 90 

The highest number at any one time, was on May 2, 1869, when were 

admitted 69 

The highest number at one time on profession of faith in Christ — May 2, 

1869 64 

The highest number on profession, for any one year, was also, during the 

same year — 1869. ' 72 

P'or 13 of these years there were observed 6 Communion Seasons, each. . 78 

For 12 of these years there were held 5 seasons, each 60 

For 3 of these years there were held 4 seasons, each 12 

1 year 3. I year 2 — Communion Seasons 5 

The present year, 1876, 2 to April 9 2 

From 1864 to 1869 inclusive, may be called the great revival season, and 
culminating era of the Church, in which period there were admitted 

to membership on profession 228 

And on letter from sister churches 159 

Making an addition for the six years of 387 

Only less the whole present membership by 122 

The record gives for the whole period of 30 years to April 16, 1876, 94 

seasons, in which infant baptism was administered — baptised 132 



73 



MANUAL OF THE 



SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. 



The following table gives at a glance, the Spiritual History of the Church : 



Years — 1845— 1876. 


Whole Number 
of 

Communion Seasons. 


Number 
On Profession. 


Number Admitted 
by Letter. 


Whole Number of 
Admissions 
To the Church. 


Number of 
Baptismal Seasons. 


Number of 
Infant Baptisms. 








30 


30 






1846 . 


4 


3 


60 


63 


3 


9 


l8/i7 


2 


24 


13 


37 






1848 


5 


29 


50 


79 


5 


4 




5 


9 


II 


20 


4 


4 




3 


4 


17 


21 


2 


3 


1851 


5 


15 


*9 


34 


3 


5 


1852 


5 


5 


28 


33 


3 


2 


iRea 


6 


53 


32 


85 


5 


8 


tRca 


6 


11 


22 


35 


3 


4 


18^ 


5 


9 


21 


30 


4 


16 


1856 


6 


55 


27 


82 


3 


5 


l8c;7 


6 


4 


21 


25 


4 


9 


1858 


6 


28 


16 


44 


3 


16 


18^0 


• 6 


6 


10 


16 


4 


11 


i860 


5 


3 


22 


25 


5 


9 


1861 


6 


4 


13 


17 


3 


6 


1862 


5 * 


22 


14 


36 


3 


9 


1863 


5 


15 


23 


38 


4 


13 




6 


61 


44 


105 


5 


12 


1865 


6 


11 


24 


35 


2 


3 




6 


69 


21 


90 


5 


25 




6 


15 


24 


39 


5 


13 


1868 


5 


12 


18 


30 


5 


17 




4 


72 


32 


104 


3 


9 




6 


10 


20 


30 


1 


3 




5 


11 


27 


38 








5 


15 


11 


26 






1873 


5 


52 


10 


62 






1874 


6 


9 


11 


20 


4 


6 


1875 


4 


15 


11 


26 


1 


6 


1876 


2 


34 


9 


43 


2 


5 


Total 


157 


685 


713 


1398 


94 


232 



It will be seen that the great revival seasons occurred as follows — not given in 
their order as to time — but commencing at the highest number : 

1864 Total 105 Prof. 69 

1869 " 104 " 72 

1866 " 90 " 69 

1853 " 85 " 53 

1856 , " 82 " 55- 

1848 " 79 " 29 

1873 " J)2 52 

A total for seven years 607 391 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 79 



YOUNG LADIES MARRIED 

SINCE UNITING WITH THE CHURCH. 



BK.FORE. AFTER. 

Balcom, Miss Mary R. . '. Mrs. Hovey J. French. 

Barker, Miss Jennie E Mrs. Byron Wescott. 

Bertrand, Miss Mary Mrs. McGaffey. 

Brown, Miss M. Louise Mrs. Adsit. 

Brown, Miss Ella H Mrs. S. M. Hunter. 

Carew, Miss Abby Mrs. Kniskern. 

Catlin, Miss Hattie L. . . . *Mrs. Carpenter. 

Catlin, Miss Julia H Mrs. Gilbert. 

Copeland, Miss Clara Mrs. Edwin A. Shaw. 

Crandall, Miss Flora E Mrs. E. J. Plumley. 

Crandall, Miss Ella Mrs. Simeon R. Sikes. 

Crittenden, Miss Mary Mrs. E. J. Chatfield. 

Crittenden, Miss Jennie L Mrs. C. H. Baker. 

Crittenden, Miss Emily R Mrs. Chapin. 

Curtiss, Miss Cora , Mrs. Irving Sibley. 

Dawson, Mrs. Jane Mrs. Samuel Davidson. 

Dinwoodie, Miss Ella Mrs. R. K. Strickland. 

Dinwoodie. Miss Amelia Mary Mrs. Ransom R. Baker. 

Derrick, Miss Agnes J. (Ovens.) Mrs. Seth S. Spencer. 

Dowd, Miss Isabella ' Mrs. Bailey. 

Egberts, Miss Wilhelmina Mrs. Vennerman. 

Egberts, Miss Hannah H Mrs. Wilkie. 

Egberts, Miss Caroline . Mrs. Mermeld. 

Ellsworth, Miss Mary Mrs. Dr. Barrows. 

Fields, Miss Mary Mrs. Phineas Barton. 

Fields, Miss Elizabeth, colored Mrs. Walker. 

Folger, Miss Emma Mrs. Abner H. Bryant. 

Freeman, Miss Florence J Mrs. LeRoy Kendall. 

Gibson, Miss Jesse Mrs. Holt. 

Gowans, Miss Elizabeth A Mrs. Dr. Hopkins. 

Greenleaf, Miss Julia Mrs. Horton. 

Gray, Miss Jane Mrs. Fassett. 

Gulic, Miss Mary Ellen Mrs. M. E. Strong. 

Hankins, Miss Elleanor Mrs. John S. Snaith. 

Heacock, Miss Abby E Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge. 

Heacock, Miss Abby M Mrs. Tillinghast. 

Heacock, Miss Matilda, M Mrs. Noble. 

Henderson, Miss Lizzie Mrs. McKay. 

Henry, Mrs. Maria T *Mrs. Lee. 

Hodge, Miss Emma L Mrs. Sheldon. 

Holden, Miss Elizabeth Mrs. Cass. 

Hoole, Miss Susan Mrs. Dickinson. 

Hoole, Miss Hulda A Mrs. Charles Lynde. 

Hotchkiss, Miss Henrietta Mrs. Seth W. Warren. 

Hoyt, Miss Emily Mrs. John Gowans. 

Johnson, Miss Rebecca Mrs. A. A. Jackson. 

Johnson, Miss Harriet B Mrs. B. B. Bradley. 

Kellogg, Mrs. Mary E Mrs. Richards. 

Kimball, Miss Mary E Mrs. J. G. Dorr. 

Kimball, Miss Harriet Mrs. Wm. M. Scott. 

Lathrop, Mrs. Laura C Mrs. De Forest Crandall. 

Lee, Miss Caroline E Mrs. Leeland. 

Lawrence, Miss Mary Louise Mrs. Huntington. 

McCredie, Miss Sarah Mrs. Geo. W. Perkins. 



80 MANUAL OF THE 



BEFORE. AFTER. 

Mathews, Miss Mary N **Mrs. B. F. Montague. 

Mclntyre, Miss Isabella ' Mrs. Bishop. 

Mclntyre, Miss Clara Estella Mrs. Addison Rice. 

McNish, Miss Mary E Mrs. George W. Flynn. 

McNish, Miss Agnes J ' Mrs. C. K. Walrath. 

McVean, Miss Jane Mrs. Hillard. 

McVean, Miss Jeanette Mrs. Earp. 

Monroe, Miss Kate Mrs. Theodore Rhodes. 

Moore, Miss Adaline S Mrs. George E. Sykes. 

Morrow, Miss Mrs. William Wade. 

Munce, Miss Harriet Mrs. Koch. 

Murray, Miss Hattie Mrs. C. T. Crittenden. 

Null, Miss Annie Mrs. Geo. F. Nixon. 

Nichols, Miss Clara Mrs. Baker. 

Parker, Miss Emily Mrs. Rev. Stockbridge. 

Patterson, Mrs. Margaret Mrs. A. M. Johnston. 

Paxon, Miss Mercy Mrs. Eli Webster. 

Penny, Miss Louise Mrs. Sloat. 

Perkins, Mrs. Electa Mrs. Veile. 

Phillips, Miss Emily Mrs. John Bedford. 

Phillips, Miss Mary J. . Mrs. Charles Butler. 

Pierson, Miss Charlotte Mrs. L. L. Lewis. 

Piatt, Miss Harriet xM Mrs. L. R. Casey. 

Potter, Miss F. Mary Mrs. G. W. Buckland. 

Presbrey, Miss Carrie Mrs. Frank M. Greene. 

Rice, Miss Carrie Mrs. Frank Russell. 

Robinson, Miss Mary E Mrs. J. F. Brown. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Hannah *Mrs. Paddock. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Emeline P Mrs. Heartwell. 

Searls, Miss Fannie E *Mrs. Wells. 

Sears, Miss Susan. . Mrs. Sizer. 

Seaman, Mrs. Henrietta L Mrs. York. 

Snyder, Miss Setha Mrs. J. B. Hills. 

Spencer, Miss Cora L Mrs. Cotter. 

Spencer, Miss Carrie E Mrs. Henegen. 

Stone, Miss Elizabeth ! *Mrs. Charles S. Clarke. 

Stone, Miss Nancy Mrs. G. W. Heacock, D. D. 

Sudderick, Miss Maggie Mrs. Charles F. Bingham. 

Swart, Mrs. Catherine Mrs. I. M. Schermerhorn. 

Sweet, Miss Zilpha Ann Mrs. Diamond. 

Teller, Miss Sarah C *Mrs. Sloan. 

Templeton, Miss Anna Mrs. John Howell. 

Templeton, Miss Ellen Mrs. John Neller. 

Vine, Miss Fannie L *Mrs. Geo. W. Dunbar. 

Vosler, Miss Racelia Mrs. Mullen. 

Wade Miss Catherine Louise Mrs. Henry Williams. 

Wade, Mrs. Emma C Mrs. Fullerton. 

Waters, Miss Eliza M Mrs. S. M. Eddy. 

Wesley, Nellie S Mrs. Frank Armstrong. 

Wheeler, Miss Annie Mrs. W. H. Adams. 

Whitney, Miss Sarah Mrs. Wm. Thompson. 

Whitcomb, Miss Cora Mrs. L. A. Sirrett. 

Whitcomb, Miss Mary Mrs. Leonard H. Best. 

Wilcox, Mrs. Jane Mrs. Willis. 

Wilkeson, Miss Lottie Mrs. J. B. Forsyth. 

Williams, Miss Kate E Mrs. Charles W. Guild. 

Woods, Miss Charlotte Mrs. Sawyer. 

Woodward, Miss Julia A Mrs. Rev. W. S. Johnson. 



A total as far as known of 112. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 8 1 



NAMES OF MEMBERS NOW DECEASED. 



Time of Decease. 

Abbott, Mrs. Hannah 

Adams, Robert In Brooklyn. 

Adams, Edwin S.. Jan. 20, 1875, in Detroit. 

Albright, Mrs. Margaret 

Arnold, Mrs; Caroline Kalamazoo. 

Ault, Miss Minerva Elizabeth May 24, 1872. 

Bailey, D. W In the late war. 

Baker, Mrs. Mary L. (Mrs. C. A. Baker.) July 2, 1867. 

Baker, Mrs. Florence. (Mrs. C. A. Baker.) 1871. 

Barker, Nathan B Dec. 4, 1873. 

Barr, Mrs. Malvina E Oct. 11, 1874. 

Barlh, Julia Ann . . Feb. 11, 1875. 

Bell, Mrs. Maria Jan. 13, 1874. 

Bettis, Mrs. Ann In Milwaukee, 1852. 

Bettis, Miss Mary Ann 1850. 

Bettis, Miss Mary Elizabeth 185 1. 

Bettis, Miss Sarah H Aug. 9, 1867. 

Blakely, Mrs. Sarah May 20, 187 1. 

Bogart. Martin S 1868. 

Boyd, Mrs. Jane 

Bristol, Mrs. Edward 1871. 

Brown, Mrs. Cornelia L Sept. 28, 1864. 

Brown, Jeremiah N 

Brown, Perez E *. 1870. 

Brownell, George 

Brush, Nathaniel H Feb. 1870. 

Brush, Mrs. Jesse July 9, 1872. 

Bryant, Abner. (Elder) July 20, 1853. 

Campbell, Henry C In Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 1873. 

Carpenter, John H . Jan. 21, 1862. 

Carpenter, Mrs. Elizabeth 

Caswell, Miss Maria Feb. 1874. 

Catlin, Miss Hattie L. (Mrs. Carpenter) Sept. 9, 1873. 

Chamberlain, Mrs. Catharine i860. 

Clark, Mrs. Mary ... 

Clark, Seth. (Elder) Dec. 7, 1875. 

Clark, Mrs. William H 

Clarke, Mrs. Charles E 1867. 

Clarke, Mrs. Elizabeth A 

Cleghorn, Mrs. Maria 

Coe, Mrs. Hannah C About 1868. 

Comstock, Mrs. Catharine J 

Cooper, Joseph May, 1852. 

Cotton, Eliza G Nov. 4. 1870. 

Crittenden, Edward 1849. 

Crittenden, Miss Ellen 1855. 

Dow, William F 

Doosenbury, Mrs. Mary Oct. i860. 



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Time of Decease. 

Edgarton, Orrin } 

Edgarton, Mrs. Louisa ) 

Eels, Miss Harriet M Oct. 16, 1854. 

Egberts, Egbert 1872. 

Evans, Mrs. Amelia Sept. 13, 1874. 

Farnsworth, Dr. E 

Field, Mrs. Emma. (Colored) 1864. 

Fisher, John, Jr Oct. 8, 1872. 

Fisher, Albert B. (his son) July 2, 1875. 

Flagg, Theodore „ 

Fleming, Mrs. Mary Jan. 17, 1851. 

Folger, Benj. H. i Dec. 2, 1861. 

Folger, Mrs. B. H. j" 

French, Prosper 1856. 

Foot, Mrs. Julius D 

Gray, Mrs. Elizabeth 

Gibbs, Mrs. Sally • 

Given, Miss Nancy 

Gowans, Mrs. Peter Nov. 17, 1862. 

Goulding, D. S 

Graves, Mrs. Ursula P 

Greene, Mrs. Mary 1863. 

Greenleaf , William R. ) 

Greenleaf, Mrs. Ann Eliza ) April I, 1865. 

Grosvenor, Godfrey) Jan. 3, i860. 

Grosvenor, Mrs. ) April 13, i860. 

Grosvenor, Mrs. Janet In the fall of 1868. 

Hammond, Mrs. Julia 

Hammond, Miss Mary Ann Jan. 14, 1874. 

Hammond, Jonathan ) 

Hammond, Mrs. Jonathan ) 

Harrington, Henry V. ) 1851 or 1852. 

Harrington, Mrs. Jane ) 

Hatch, Mrs. Lydia June, 1851. 

Hawkins, Mrs. Martha 1865. 

Heacock, Reuben B. } .- .April 7, 1854. 

Heacock, Mrs. Abby P. ) Dec. 4, 1868. 

Heacock, Mrs. Edna S Aug. 20, 1864. 

Hendricks, Miss Mary ♦ . . Sept. 29, 1873. 

Henry, Mrs. Maria T 

Henry, Miss Emma Louisa 

Higgins, Alfred W Feb. 13, 1870. 

Higgins, Arthur S June 11, 1867. 

Hill, Miss Sophia 

Hoole, Henry B. S. . . . Lost off Cape Horn. 

House, Mrs. Julia Oct. 22, 1854. 

House, Mrs. Sarah A Aug. 18, 1870. 

Howard, Mrs. Helen j Wives of ) May 2, 1846. 

Howard, Mrs. Maria Louisa ( Geo. Howard )• March 30, 1851. 

Howard, Mrs. Irene 

Howell, Mrs. John Sept. 1854. 

Johnston, Mrs. A. M Jan. 9, 1875. 



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Time of Decease. 

Kellogg, Samuel S At Fair Oaks, 1862. 

Kelso, Miss Margaret Aug. 30, 1873. 

Kibbe, Mrs. Serena 1867. 

Kibbe, Isaac Nov. 25, 1873. 

Kimball, Lovel 

Knight, Mrs. W. M Oct. 15, 1873. 

Lapp, Mrs. Sarah July 11, 1875. 

Lee, James P 1869. 

Lee, Mrs. M. T Jan. 29, 1854. 

Lee, Miss Louisa. P At Allen's Grove, Wis., 1873. 

Leland, B. P July 4, 1874. 

Littlefield, Mrs. Sophia 1852. 

Livingston, Thomas, Jr. } 

Livingston, Mrs. ) 

Lowe, Miss Anna E Feb. 7, 1857. 

Marvin, Julius A 

Mason, Mrs. Frank B Aug. 29, 1874. 

Mathews, Mrs. Clarinda 

Mathews, Miss Mary N. (Mrs. Mohtague) Nov. 1870. 

'McComb, Mrs. Elizabeth. . 

McCready, Miss Jane Sept. 20, 1861. 

McCready, Richard R April 9, t86o. 

Mills, Miss Louisa M 

Mills, Miss Caroline E 

Mitchell, George B. . . 1870. 

Moore, Miss Helen C 



Newland, William i860. 

Otto, Mrs. Phoebe June 1, 1867. 



Palmer, N. B. ) 

Palmer, Mrs. ) 

Parker, Andrew. Elder } 
Parker, Mrs. Andrew ) 

Parks, Mrs. Mary E 

Peck, Mrs. Sarah 

Piatt, James B 

Porter, Samuel 

Price, Mrs. Margaret .... 

Price, Miss Olivia M 

Pride, Mrs. Marietta 

Putnam, Mrs. Eliza R. 

Radley, Miss Mary Jane . 

Richardson, Elijah K 

Root, Edward 

Royce, Mrs. Dr. P. A 



. Jan. 5, 1859. 
May 23, 1873. 
Dec. 22, 1863. 



Mai-ch, 1874. 

. .At Albion, Feb. 22, 1874. 

At Livonia, 1870. 

A.t Livonia, 1861. 

At A) den, March 16, 1853. 
At Worcester, Mass., 1873. 



In Michigan, Feb. 1866. 



Schermerhorn, Miss Hannah 1857. 

Schermerhorn, Mrs. Maria 1857. 

Scott, Mrs. Henrietta M 1866. 

Scott, Miss Mary R Nov. 24, 1875. 

Sears, Selim. (Elder) March 22, 1867. 

Selden, Mrs. Phcebe 



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Time of Decease. 

Searls, Miss Fannie E. (Mrs. Wells) 

Semon, Mrs. J. S 

Seymour, Benj. F 

Shoecraft, Mrs. Elizabeth Jan. 29, 1866. 

Shumway, Mrs. Maria A April 20, 1876. 

Sikes, Samuel D. (Elder) Feb. 13, 1875. 

Spencer, Mrs. Rosette B 

St. John, Mary Ann 

Studdiford, Mrs. William V Feb. 19, 1872. 

Sweet, James 

Stone, Jesse / 1857. 

Stone, Mrs. Kezia $ 1858. 

Teller, Mrs. Sarah C 1866 or 1867. 

Templeton, Isabella M 1863. 

Thomas, Mrs. Wealthy C May 8, 1875. 

Townsend, Robert E 1849. 

Tuton, Mrs. Elizabeth Jan. 6, 1869. 

Van Buren, Mrs. James May 15, 1856. 

Van Buren, Miss Frances A Oct. 7, 1864. 

Vaux, Miss Martha Jane Oct. 1863. 

Vine, Miss Fannie L. (Mrs. Geo. W. Dunbar) Dec. 3, 1873. 

Wade, James ) Jan. 7, 1866. 

Wade, Mrs. J. f Aug. 12, 1858. 

Wade, John In the army, Virginia, 1863. 

Wade, Mrs 1862 or 1863. 

Wade, James R 

Walker, Mrs. J. W. (Miss Tillie Bingham) Dec. 11, 1864. 

Waters, John D. ) 

Waters, Mrs. J 

Weed, Elias Aug. 8, 1864. 

White, Mrs. Wealthy M Sept. 19, 1857. 

White, Mrs. I. J 

Whitney, Mrs. Alcie. (Mrs. M. A.) Jan. 22, 1874. 

Whittet, Joseph 1869. 

Woodward, James Sheldon Oct. 24, 1854. 

Woodworth, Miss Maria M 



THE HISTORY 

OF THE 

Lafayette St. Presbyterian Church 

AND CONGREGATION 

OF 

BUFFALO, N. Y. 
FOR THIRTY-ONE YEARS. 



"To write history is one fashion of getting rid of the 
past." — -Goethe. 

"Forgetting those things which are behind^ and reaching 
forth unto those which are before. — Phil, iii : 13. 



HISTORICAL SERMON. 



i Samuel, vii. 12. 

" Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the 
name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." 

A Church has a history, like any other society, but as it is (if 
it be a true Church) a divine, a spiritual society, it has a divine ele- 
ment in its history, and this is the chief element. We beg the 
indulgence of all who do not accept this idea, to the peculiar style of 
our history, as it will recognize and set forth this divine element 
chiefly and primarily. 

It would be no pleasure for us to record this history, if it did not 
disclose the divine agency as chief and primal; while not ignoring the 
generous and faithful instrumentality of human hearts and hands. 

We believe that from God, "all holy desires, all good counsels and 
all just works do proceed," and though such desires, counsels and 
works are wrought in human hearts, and illustrated in human lives, 
yet God is the source and supporter of them all. 

We believe that all true Christian labors are "begun, continued 
and ended" in God; that in all true service and offerings, we only 
give Him of His own, for " of Him, and to Him, and through Him 
are all things," and to Him belongs all the glory ; and it may be a 
commendation of such a view of a Church's history that it will ascribe 
the chief honor of anything which has been done, not to men, but to 
God. 

We adopt, therefore, as the motto of each section of our history, 

"hitherto hath the lord helped us." 

And we acknowledge the kind and helpful providence of God in 
all the external circumstances of our history. These were at the first 
extremely depressing and untoward. 

Our First Service. 

In the "Buffalo Commercial Advertiser" of Saturday afternoon, 
June 7, 1845, there appeared the following brief notice : . 

" There will be preaching by Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock in the 
Park Church to-morrow (Sunday)." 



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There was then no long column of religious notices such as there 
is now in the Saturday dailies, and the advertisement I have quoted 
found a very secluded and solitary place for itself, just under the 
column of "Marine Intelligence." The notice thus quoted, beyond 
a doubt, indicates the first preaching service in this place in connec- 
tion with the establishment of the present congregation. 

This small, dust-worn and ancient-looking manuscript,* must have 
put in an appearance at one of the services of that day, morning or 
afternoon, for it is endorsed, " Preached— Park — June 8, 1845." It 
is entitled, " Reward." The text is Hebrews, xi. 26, " For he had 
respect unto the recompense of the reward." 

We made no note of any of the particulars of the day. Had the 
thought occurred to us, amid the timid hopes of our beginning, that 
nearly a third of a century would find us yet here, it would have been 
a pleasure to put down many of the names, as well as the number of 
the small congregation that gathered that day to inaugurate our inex- 
perienced ministry in connection with this enterprise. 

A gentleman led the choir whose kind words of encourage- 
ment, lent cheer to my commencing ministry; while his taste and 
enthusiasm gave inspiration and beauty to the service of song in the 
sanctuary. I need scarcely say that I refer to the late Emory Taunt, 
whose name was familiar and honored for so many years in the 
musical circles of this city. 

I remember that I was then within two months of my twenty-fourth 
birthday. 

CHAPTER I. 

OUR CHURCH EDIFICES. 

There may, possibly, be eight or ten persons present who can 
recall our 

First Edifice. 

It was, as to its interior, a small, old and gloomy church building, 
with high, stiff-looking pews, somber walls, and a heavy gallery, run- 
ning along the south side of the church, over the vestibule, and 
giving the almost square room a still more square and angular appear- 
ance. Its great white pulpit was lifted like a huge barricade against 



* The speaker here exhibited a manuscript sermon to the congregation. 



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the north wall. (Pulpit architecture has certainly declined since that 
day.) The structure was vast and ponderous, with a double line of 
breastworks on either flank. It was a regular redoubt. 

The exterior of the building was no more attractive than its 
interior; and around it had gathered the wrecks of two or three pre- 
vious Church failures. We began to build, not indeed on another 
man's foundations, but amid the fallen ruins of another's labors, 
under which lay also, the debris of other wrecks. We were small in 
numbers ; we had but little wealth ; we abounded only in disastrous 
and uncomfortable memories ; we must meet the prejudices of men 
who had failed in what we were about to undertake. 

We had plenty of sympathy, but it was not of the kind which 
inspires, it was condolence. It was enough to sink us and altogether, 
in these aspects, it was a very, very forlorn hope. As we think of 
these untoward circumstances of our beginning, we cannot but 
acknowledge the special favor of God. 

To some of us, He gave the elastic hopefulness of youth; to others, 
the courage and cheer of the young in heart ; as they drank in the 
inspiration of a lowly, loving and unostentatious work for Christ. 
We could fare no worse than, those who had gone before us. We 
could not make a great failure, for there was not enough of us to 
accomplish any such result. Venturing generally on the motto, 
"He that's down need fear no fall," we began our progress in a very 
quiet way, and followed on as God in His goodness opened that way 
before us. 

Why We Commenced Here. 

You may ask why we commenced here in such circumstances ? By 
all ordinary rules it was a mistake. Dr. Beecher once said in my 
hearing, that, " no Church enterprise ought to be undertaken in a city, 
without enough both of men and means to give it from the first, some 
power and hold upon the public confidence." In this respect we 
were years in gaining the point from which we should have started. 
And yet I am glad, on the whole that we made the venture, for the 
case was exceptional, and if we had not contravened the ordinary 
laws of prudence, we should not have made a beginning here at all. 
The work which God has enabled us to do here, be the same more or 
less, would in all human probability have been undone. This cen- 
tral locality for a church would have been abandoned. 



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General Considerations. 

Some of the general considerations which impelled us in our enter- 
prise were these. This spot had already been occupied by a Christian 
congregation, and it seemed a pity to abandon it. This locality had 
also been the scene of precious revivals of religion, in which many 
had been brought to the Christian life, who were faithful and useful 
as Christians, among the Churches of the city. Perhaps a modest 
sense of my own claims in the way of a pulpit, may have reconciled 
us more easily to the humble circumstances of our beginning. 
Besides, the project of my undertaking the care of some congregation 
in the city, had been for some time privately mooted, and I was 
anxious to be at work. And, perhaps in addition to all else, some 
of that same weakness of local attachment which binds me to this 
hour, to the city of my nativity, may have influenced me in my first 
action. 

The edifice which we first occupied was built and dedicated as a 
Free Church in the year 1833; and it strengthens our gratitude, as 
well as our confidence before God, to remember that our present 
enterprise has been continued in comfortable and growing existence, 
for a term of years, nearly treble the length of that occupied by the 
three enterprises which had preceded it. The united years of their 
continuance were only twelve, beginning with 1833 and ending with 
1845. We are here, by God's favor, for nearly three times twelve. 
We may begin therefore, to breathe somewhat more freely, and may 
hope that this Church has long since attained its majority, and is to 
go forward, under God, to do for many years the full work of a 
Christian manhood. 

The Fire. 

On Sabbath morning, the eleventh of March, 1850, the old edifice, 
in which we had experienced such doubtful fortunes, was burned up. 
A flying brand from the American Block (Main street, west side, 
between Court and Eagle streets, which has once since been the 
scene of a sad and memorable conflagration), borne by a violent wind 
across the Park, lodged in the cornice of the church. It was impos- 
sible, without great peril, to reach the spot where it had lodged. The 
firemen were worn out by their night-long battle with the flames ; the 
water of the reservoirs was exhausted. In a few moments the whole 
house was in a blaze. The wind, which had risen to a tempest, 
danced and roared and rollicked with the flames in furious sport. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 93 

In half an hour the little old sanctuary was purified by fire. The 
tongue of flame had licked out the prejudices which years had 
accumulated. 

I recall the friendly presence of John B. Gough, as I stood watch- 
ing the holocaust from the Park, who had been drawn out by the 
excitement of the fire; and I wonder if some of those sweeping bursts 
of eloquence, which we have since heard from him, may not have 
been inspired by the wild fury of the flame and tempest of that 
night. 

The blaze of our burning church, I supposed, was a torch to light 
my feet to some other field of labor, and had our policy of insurance 
really expired .a few days before, as some of us feared it had, the 
whole enterprise would doubtless have vanished in the flame and 
smoke of that March morning. 

Insured and Enfeoffed. 

But the insurance money, with a few hundred dollars added to it, 
completed the purchase money of the land. We thus became, as a 
body corporate, possessed of real estate, a most important item, by 
the way, in the history of any religious enterprise. 

Our Second Edifice. 

After some deliberation it was resolved to rebuild the church on 
the old walls, which were pronounced unhurt by the fire. 

The cost of rebuilding was about nine thousand dollars, a modest 
sum, certainly, but large for us. We raised six thousand dollars of 
this amount by subscription among ourselves — two of our members 
giving $2,500 of this sum (one $1,500, the other $1,000). Both of 
these gentlemen have been dead these many years, but the memories 
of both are still held in a filial and reverent affection, which the years 
only serve to deepen in my heart. We also raised outside of our 
congregation, several hundred dollars, through the indefatigable 
efforts of that most faithful and unwearied of men, Deacon Abner 
Bryant, the best gift our Mother-Church gave to us. If it is any- 
thing to these sainted spirits that we yet continue to hold forth in the 
ordinances of this sanctuary the grace and faith of that dear name, 
the name of Christ, which is above every name, which they loved, 
and in which they trusted, we gladly and gratefully give them this 
joy to-day ! 



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Thus, from discouraged and undiscouraged friends out of the con- 
gregation, and by generous subscriptions within, the above-named 
amount of six thousand dollars was made up, leaving a debt of three 
thousand upon the church when it was finished. 

We were greatly aided by the liberality of our builders, both of 
whom were Elders in the Church, one of whom, Mr. Selim Sears 
(deceased in 1867), still lives in the grateful memories not only of 
this congregation, but also of this community. The other, Mr. Seth 
Clark (deceased in 1875), leaves us the memory of a sorrow too deep 
for utterance. 

By such efforts during the course of the next two years, our church 
was rebuilt, the congregation, during that interval, und.er great incon- 
veniences, meeting for a part of the time in the small church edifice 
on Washington street, below Eagle; afterwards at McArthur's saloon, 
a little summer building opening on Washington street, west side, 
just above Eagle; and, yet later, in our new basement lecture-room. 
Our numbers were very small at this time, though our prospects were 
more cheering from the spirit of life and enterprise which the effort 
to build a new edifice had awakened. The building was completed 
and dedicated in the winter of 185 1-2. The dedicatory discourse 
was preached by S. M. Hopkins, D. D., of Auburn Theological 
Seminary, whose vigorous pen, on this occasion excelled itself. Our 
obligations to the same pen were increased, when on our entering 
this present edifice, it contributed the noble measures of a Dedica- 
tory Hymn striking full accord with those sentiments of universal 
humanity, honor and charity towards all men, which our reverence 
for God, and our faith in the incarnate mission of His Son, had most 
nurtured in our hearts. (See A, of General Index.) 

The edifice externally was not very sightly, but the interior — 
though its capacity was not great — was as cosy and pleasant an audi- 
ence room as we shall easily find. The Church filled up, and the 
congregation became all the house could comfortably hold. In the 
winter of 1852-3, provision was made for the paying off of the entire 
debt remaining on the building; and our circumstances became as 
prosperous as any Church of equal dimensions could hope for. 

Our Third Edifice. 

From time to time, as the v years went on, the question of an 
enlarged edifice began to be agitated, for it was felt that, in order 
reasonably to provide for the permanency of our Church enterprise, it 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 95 



was necessary that it should have enlarged dimensions. Such 
enlargement was not only needful in order to enlarged usefulness, 
but a congregation must have size and numbers, up to a certain 
measure, in a large and growing community, in order that the vigor 
of its life and strength be not repressed by the burdens which it must 
necessarily carry in fulfilling its work in such a community. 

While such convictions were ripening, it was found that of the 
eighty pews on the main floor of this house, all of which were taken, 
thirty-three were occupied by two or more families or parts of fami- 
lies. This seemed to indicate that enlargement was needed for the 
healthy growth of the congregation, but the undertaking seemed too 
great for us, and I do not think we should have ventured upon it had 
not other circumstances pressed the matter very urgently upon us. 

The pulpit of the North Church in this city had become vacant. 
The people of that Church knew of our discussions with reference to 
the building of a new edifice. Our ability, as a congregation, to carry 
out such a project, was seriously questioned on all hands. In our 
mutual fears, for the brethren of our sister Church felt some of the 
anxieties of a people destitute of a pastor, we were drawn into some 
incipient measures for the uniting of the two congregations under 
one pastorate. Without sufficient deliberation a call was made by 
that Church to the pastor of this, with the intention of uniting the 
two, but Presbytery intervened, disapproving the measure, and indi- 
cated that it was the duty of this congregation to go forward and 
enlarge the church edifice. No one, at this day, will question the 
justice or wisdom of that decision for all the parties concerned. 

Just as the heaviest sorrow of my life had fallen upon me, and 
when I could hardly have continued the accustomed labors of my 
pulpit, a welcome rest was afforded me by the commencement of the 
work of taking down the building we had occupied for nearly eleven 
years. This was in June, 1862, seventeen years to a month from the 
beginning of my ministry here. An additional piece of land was 
bought, forty feet front on Washington street, running along the rear 
of our old lot, one hundred and ten feet deep, and the work of build- 
ing this pleasant edifice, and its equally pleasant chapel, was begun. 

After a few weeks of interruption of our Sabbath services, they were 
resumed in the church edifice on Niagara Square, now occupied by 
the congregation of the Free Baptists. In the fall, we accepted the 
invitation of Dr. Lord's congregation to unite our Sabbath services 
with theirs until our new house should be ready. Early in 1863 we 



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entered the chapel connected with this building, and in October of 
the same year dedicated this church edifice, Rev. Dr. P. H. Fowler, 
of Utica, preaching the dedication sermon. 

We were under many apprehensions as to the filling up of this 
church, but all the seats were almost immediately rented or sold, and 
the congregation has generally maintained the increase it then 
gained. In all the history of this chapter of our church edifices, we 
have reason to acknowledge the favor of God in giving courage 
and activity to the congregation to accomplish what it has in this 
direction. 

" Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." 



CHAPTER II. 

HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 

On the first Sabbath of my ministrations here, a congregation of 
some one hundred and fifty or two hundred persons were present. 
But we were without either legal or ecclesiastical organization. I 
was in the pulpit, in God's good providence, of my own will, and by 
the tacit consent of the people. 

On the thirteenth of the next month, July, 1845, a society was 
legally constituted, under the title of " The Park Church Society," 
by the election of nine trustees. The names of these gentlemen may 
be found on the third page of this volume. The board was organ- 
ized August 1, 1845, by the election of Reuben B. Heacock, Presi- 
dent ; N. B. Palmer, Treasurer ; George R. Kibbe^ Clerk. Only two 
members of this first Board of Trustees are now living, and neither 
of them is any longer connected with the Church or congregation. 

On the twenty-first of October, 1845, the name was changed, by 
unanimous vote, to that of "Lafayette Street Church Society." 

From the first, forty-three different gentlemen have served the Con- 
gregation in this responsible and honorable office (pp. 4, 5, 6). And 
it is a testimony to the wisdom and fidelity with which, during all 
these years, they have managed their trust, and as well, also, to the 
liberality of the congregation, and the favoring providence of God, 
that this congregation, which commenced with scarcely a dollar in its 
hands, holds now a property worth, I think I may safely say, more 
than fifty thousand dollars over and above all its present liabilities. 



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97 



In view of this, we may surely say, " Hitherto the Lord hath helped 
us." In addition to the church property, the trustees also hold, for 
the congregation, the fine chapel and lot on Milnor street occupied 
by our flourishing Mission Sabbath School — a property which cannot 
have cost the society less than from seven to eight thousand dollars 
for the land and building. 

The cost of our different church edifices, of the additional land 
required for our enlargement, and for the Mission lot and chapel and 
its late enlargement, and an average of the annual congregational 
expenses for the thirty-one years which we close to-day cannot be 
less, in its sum total, than one hundred thousand dollars, which God 
has enabled and inclined this congregation to give for the establish- 
ment and perpetuation, for nearly the years of a generation, of the 
institutions and ordinances of His truth and Gospel, His Sanctuary 
and His Sabbath in this place; and this sum has been given in addi- 
tion to other sums, more than half as large in their total, for Evan- 
elical, Christian and humane purposes, outside of the congregation. 
(See I, General Index.) In view of all this, we may again gratefully 
say, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." But, 

ad. The favor of God has been extended toward us in our spiritual 
history, which will now be given in 



CHAPTER III. 

THE HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND GROWTH OF THE CHURCH. 

On Thursday evening, the sixteenth of October, 1845, nearly five 
months after I commenced preaching here, the Church,- which still 
worships here, was organized on this spot. For more than four 
years of Sabbaths, therefore, have we observed the worship and 
ordinances of a Christian Church, in this locality. The history and 
influence of a Church is usually gentle and silent, like the leaven or 
the dew. It tells, for the most part, gently on the world. It tells 
silently upon Heaven. You will not expect, therefore, remarkable 
incidents. The life and growth of a true Church is, in the highest 
sense, the work of God. The life of a plant or shrub is also His 
work; but that communion of faith, hope and love, which in Christ, 
is the secret bond and vital element in the growth of a true Church, 
this is nourished out of the very heart of God, and is the fruit of His 



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most tender and loving culture. Of the three ministers, who con- 
stituted the Committee of Presbytery to organize this Church, two 
are deceased, the Rev. Messrs. Todd and Orton. The Rev. Dr. 
Gillett is still living. The Church was composed of thirty members 
at its organization ; of these, fifteen were men and fifteen women. Of 
the fifteen male members six have been dismissed to other Churches, 
seven are deceased, and two, only, are now members, Mr. Edward 
Bristol and Mr. Samuel J. Field. Of the fifteen females, nine are 
deceased, four have been dismissed to other Churches, and two 
remain, viz.: Mrs. Mary J. Field and Mrs. Abby H. Trowbridge. 
The first Elders elected were, Abner Bryant and Dwight Needham. 
As soon as the organization was completed, a call was put into my 
hands to become the pastor of the little flock, at the nominal salary 
of six hundred dollars. The call was accepted. The Synod of Gen- 
esee was in session in this city at this time. The Presbytery of 
Buffalo, therefore, to which the Church belonged (they having con- 
stituted it by a commission from their body), proceeded, on the next 
Sabbath afternoon, to the services of my ordination and installation. 

Dr. Ichabod Spencer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a former pastor of the 
lady who afterwards became my wife, preached the sermon; and 
though that fine eye, and those eloquent lips have long been sealed 
in death, I often recall the echo of his strong words, and see, again, 
the faces of the wrapped auditory. Dr. Asa T. Hopkins, of the 
First Church in this city, delivered the charge to the young pastor, 
and Rev. Mr. Beardsley, of Silver Creek, the charge to the people. 
Since the organization of the Church, up to last Sabbath's com- 
munion, the names of about fourteen hundred persons have been put 
upon its roll. About half of those who have united with the Church 
have done so on profession of faith, and half have been received on 
letters from sister Churches. The number who have taken letters of 
dismission is five hundred and thirty. The number constituting the 
present membership whose identity and present residence are cer- 
tain, is five hundred and twenty-one. About one hundred names 
(see page 77) beside, are still on our rolls, no records of their dis- 
mission being found, concerning whose history and whereabouts 
nothing is certainly known. This is, perhaps, not a larger number 
than would be counted among' the "missing" of any regimental roll 
after a thirty years' service. 



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Revivals. 

I have alluded to the peculiar difficulties under which this Church 
enterprise was begun and carried on for many years. There was 
one supreme token, which more than all else, cheered and supported 
us under these discouragements, and that was the evident seal which 
the Divine Spirit set upon our prayers and labors as a Church, in the 
quickening of souls to a Christian life. If the Bible has given us the 
true characteristics of such seasons of divine refreshing and revival, 
there was often, I think I may reasonably say, clear yet quiet demon- 
stration of the presence of such a heavenly influence among us. Had it 
not been for such seasons, sought for and prized, and often graciously 
repeated among us, our history would certainly have been very differ- 
ent from what it has been, and I seriously doubt if our existence, as 
a Church, would have been continued to this time. The period of 
five years, from 1864 to 1869, was especially marked as a season of 
divine refreshing to us, during which over two hundred converts were 
added to our communion, as the fruits of revivals. 

In all, eight distinct seasons of special divine refreshing have 
marked our history up to the present time, the most marked and 
fruitful of which were those of the years 1864, 1866, 1869. The 
years 1853, 1856, 1873, and the present, 1876, are also marked by the 
same gracious tokens, though in a less degree. (See page 77.) 

In all these years, we trust, Christians have been growing in grace 
and faith, and many, we humbly believe, have ripened for Heaven. 

Beneficence. 

In the special grace of Christian beneficence we trust this Church 
has also made some progress. Of silver and gold we have never had 
a great store, but we ought not to afflict our souls on that account, if 
we have only used wisely and liberally of what we have had. God 
gives His children other and better things than material wealth — ■ 
the wealth of His own love and grace to minister to others. 

There is no perfect schedule of our contributions for purposes out- 
side the congregation. But an average, based upon the annual 
reports which have been preserved, would give us as I have already 
said, more than fifty thousand dollars as the sum total, for Evangel- 
ical and humane purposes, outside the congregation and its local 
work, raised by this congregation during its thirty-one years of exist- 
ence. A study of the table on the " Benevolent Contributions " of 
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This table is to be found in (See I, General Index) this volume. In 
the year 187 1, January 4, we adopted our present scheme of "Sab- 
bath Morning Offerings," as a part of our worship ; and we believe 
this system to be, by far, the best adapted to call out and cultivate 
the true spirit of Christian liberality. (See page 15.) 

Our Apostles. 

It is with the sincerest gratitude to God, and with the tenderest 
and largest hope, that we refer to the company of eight young men 
who have gone out from among us to be preachers of the Gospel in 
our land. 

On our twenty-fifth anniversary it was our privilege to welcome to 
this place six of these ministers, and to hear from their own lips 
earnest and eloquent words, expressive of their apprehensions of the 
glory and scope of that work, the ministry of the Gospel, to which 
they had given their lives. We ought, at that time, to have heard the 
voice of another, the Rev. W. M. Ingersoll, of the Second Baptist 
Church, of Washington City, who dated the beginning of his religious 
life in the precious revival of 1852, among us. Mr. Ingersoll, how- 
ever, having joined the Baptist Church, and carrying forward and 
completing his studies for the ministry in a Baptist University and 
Theological Seminary, it is scarcely a wonder that I lost sight of him. 
But I have sought and obtained of him a brief account of his min- 
istry; and we are proud to put his name among the other names of 
our apostolate. We are also permitted to add another name to this 
list which we prize so highly, and that is the name of Rev. David F. 
Stuart, so lately among us, now a graduate of the New York Union 
Theological Seminary; of whom, if life and health be spared, we 
expect to, and have the promise of, hearing a good report. 

Under this head I have taken the liberty of printing (see A, of 
General Index) among our memoirs, brief synopsis of the services of 
this memorable twenty-fifth anniversary, with the reports of the 
speeches of the six ministers who were with us at that time, and 
letters from the other two which I have mentioned, remarking that 
five out of the eight date their religious life among us, while all, 
gratefully to us, acknowledge that their experience among us added 
impulse and energy to these purposes and aims to which they have 
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As we look over this chapter of our spiritual history, may we not 
say, with deep and humble gratitude, "Hitherto hath the Lord 
helped us ? " 

It is, perhaps, proper that, at this point, I should relieve this detail 
of local interest by a more general, though it must be very slight, 
survey of the Churches and Church organizations of the city when I 
commenced my ministry here, with some notices of their history, and, 
also, the more general history of Christian progress throughout the 
world during the thirty and one years of our existence as a congre- 
gation. This will compose 



CHAPTER IV. 

GENERAL SURVEY. 

Baptists, 

At the period alluded to (1845), Dr. Levi. Tucker occupied the 
pulpit of the First Baptist Church of this city. He was succeeded 
by the Rev. Dr. V. R. Hotchkiss, who, after a pastorate of — years, 
accepted a call to a Professorship in Rochester University. Then 
came our stirring brother, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, and, after him, the 
brief pastorate of our gentle and gracious friend, Rev. D. H. Moore. 
Dr. Hotchkiss has now been recalled to his former pulpit, with the 
warm welcome not only of his own people, but of the many friends 
who know the value of his ministry, and appreciate his personal 
worth. 

Another Church enterprise on the part of the Baptist denomina- 
tion commenced its existence about the same time with ours. It was 
called the Cottage Baptist Church, and built and occupied for a time 
the small edifice on the southeast corner opposite this Park, now 
occupied by the French Roman Catholic Congregation of St. Peters. 
After a few years the Baptists sold that edifice and migrated to Niag- 
ara Square, and built the edifice now in that locality. But the con- 
gregation did not become permanent ; a new and promising enterprise } 
of the same denomination, has now, however, sprung up, having 
reference to the same general locality — the Prospect Avenue Baptist 
Church. The large and growing congregation of the Cedar Street 
Church has, also, come into existence during the last half of my 
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noble mission and mission Sabbath school work in this city, which 
ought to be an example, and an impulse, to their brethren of other 
denominations. 

Methodists. 

At the date of the commencement of my ministry here, the old 
Niagara street church, now the Jewish Temple Beth Zion, was yet 
the head-quarters of Methodism in this city. The vigorous congre- 
gation of Grace Church was then worshiping in its new but smaller 
edifice on the corner of Swan and Michigan streets. The Pearl 
street, now Asbury, Church, was not yet organized. The Delaware 
Avenue Church, so soon now to enter its beautiful edifice, was of still 
later date. The smaller enterprises on Elk and Eagle streets, as well 
as that at Riverside, together with the growing congregation of the 
Plymouth Church, have taken local habitation and form within the 
later years of my ministry. 

We recall, among the ministry of these brethren, a hurried 
acquaintance with many a genial face ; and bear with us the distinct 
impression that a line of earnest and faithful preachers has passed 
before us. 

Episcopalians. 

At the date of which I speak, among our Church friends Trinity 
was extant, under the care of its esteemed and excellent rector, Rev. 
Dr. Ingersoll, who has been succeeded by the earnest and genial 
ministry of the present rector, Rev. Dr. Van Bokelen. St. John's 
was in tabernacles, and St. James', Grace, St. Luke's, and Ascension, 
together with several other smaller Chapels and Missions, were not in 
existence. And as for our beautiful Cathedral of St. Paul's, whose 
esteemed rector, Dr. Shelton, is now in the fifth decade of his ministry 
here, it was yet in its chrysalis of blue clap-boards ; for what need, 
then, of a Cathedral? Amid our proudest aspirations we did not 
dream that our young and rude town would ever grow to the 
dignity of an Episcopal See. I remember the city of my birth and 
boyhood when her jacket was homespun and her kirtle was linsey. 
As she grew more refined and womanly, her children clad her in 
silks, placed a crown upon her motherly forehead, and called her a 
queen — "The Queen City of the Lakes." And now, these gowned 
and surpliced men have come and put a mitre above the crown. 
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thou be as godly as thou art goodly; the patron of hundreds of 
Christian Churches, and the protectress of thousands of Christian 
homes ! 

Presbyterians. 

Coming to the Churches of our own order, Rev. A. T. Hopkins, 
D. D., was in the fid First, treasured in all our hearts, and cherished 
in all our memories. May years of still greater dignity and honor 
await, here, on the old familiar spot, and in the new and nobler 
structure which her people shall give her — a twin in beauty and 
grandeur to her neighbor of St. Paul's. 

Dr. Hopkins' ministry was closed by his sudden and untimely 
death in the fall of 1849. After an interval, his pastorate was fol- 
lowed by that of Dr. Thompson, whose call to Cincinnati gave place 
to my excellent and honored brother, Rev. Walter Clarke, D. D., whose 
coming among us resulted in a most important service to our local 
history. The history of the Mother Presbyterian Church in this city 
was eloquently and elaborately set forth by him in a discourse on the 
fiftieth anniversary of its organization. If he had no other hold upon 
our abiding regards than is furnished by this most grateful work, he 
would long be cherished there. His reverent and tender words, rev- 
erent toward the dear old names, tender toward the sacred years and 
scenes of the long gone past, these will lend to his own memory some 
of the fragrance of those which he has thus preserved. The life of 
this venerable Church wakes now into new vigor under the earnest 
ministry of its young and energetic pastor. 

The North Church was not yet organized, though its organization 
followed very soon after the beginning of our own Church enter- 
prises. Its first patfor was Rev. Charles Rich, whose pastorate was 
succeeded by the cultured and largely successful ministry of Rev. A. 
T. Chester, D. D., yet of this city. After him came the ripe and 
accomplished scholarship and earnest piety of Rev. Henry Smith, D. 
D., now of Lane Seminary; and then, the vigorous and successful 
ministry of our brother, the present pastor. 

Westminster and Calvary, with their faithful and genial pastors, 
and the growing promise of their congregations, had, as yet, no place 
or home among us, and the enterprizes of the Wells Street Mission 
Church, the East side and the West side churches, are the promising 
growths of still later years. Dr. Lord's people had not then left their 
first small, oval-shaped but beautiful church edifice, for the great 



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church they now occupy, which, from its grand proportions, may be 
fitly called our Presbyterian Cathedral. At the first, the congregation 
was known as " The Pearl Street Presbyterian Society ; " about the 
time when it passed to its large edifice its name was changed to that of 
" The Central Church." And I cannot pass the mention of this long 
and honored ministry, which now, by reason of age, has closed 
among us, without expressing the fraternal and gffectionate senti- 
ments which it yet inspires. Always in the fore-front of conflict, 
amid the smoke and confusion of the battle, our honored brother 
may, sometimes, have struck where he should have defended, and 
defended where he should have smitten : yet, when the lines were 
more clearly drawn, and the mistaken enemies of Christ and human- 
ity had thrown off their disguises, no blows fell stronger or rung 
louder upon the mailed front of treason and its twin outlaw, slavery, 
than his; and now, in the quiet evening of a busy day, he beholds 
the Church of his life-long ministry re-united after its disseverance, 
and the land he loves redeemed, regenerated and glorified. The 
opening and earnest ministry of Dr. Lord's successor has already 
been marked by special tokens of the divine favor and presence, 
and the future of that congregation is full of promise. It would 
be impossible to give, in this brief and cursory review, any detail of 
* the growth or multiplication of church enterprises or edifices of other 
orders than those I have mentioned. Suffice it to say that the min- 
istry of every name and order in this city has* now swelled to the 
number of nearly'one hundred and twenty ; and may it not be hoped 
that by some means this large body may be drawn into a nearer 
acquaintance; that in the things wherein we may co-operate, not- 
withstanding all our differences, we may join hands for the general 
welfare of the community in which we live ? S'mqp the year at which 
our organization dates, the city has increased its population by 
nearly five times, mounting up from a census of thirty thousand to 
one hundred and fifty thousand ; and the Churches of our own order 
have increased from four to nine ; while our beautiful Park and its 
boulevards, our superb City Hall, and ,the improvements going 
forward on every hand, tell us that a new era has begun in the 
growth, prosperity and wealth of our Queen City. 

During these momentous years, slavery has been swept from the 
land, and the union and integrity of the nation has been confirmed 
by the blood and treasure of a great war. Great States have been 
added to the Union, spreading westward to the Pacific Slope. Rail- 



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ways stretch across the Continent, from ocean to ocean. The tele- 
graph has brought the most distant parts of the country into instan- 
taneous communication. The people are wakeful to guard our great 
institutions of popular education and of civil and religious liberty. 
The public conscience protests, with a vigor which cannot be 
resisted, against all political corruption. And to-day the nations are 
gathered at our great Exposition, to celebrate with us the progress of 
the Century. 

Nay, the ends of the earth have been brought nearer together by 
steam and electricity. The gates of the nations have been opened 
to the entrance of the Gospel. Christian missions claim the larger 
regards of the statesman and scientist, while they are more and more 
engaging the higher energy and faith of the Church ; and the women 
of Christendom are lending their zeal and devotion to the final and 
assured triumphs of the Gospel of the Son of God. 

Let me now, 



CHAPTER V, 

OUR CHRISTIAN WORK, 

Set forth, as I may, something of the nature and somewhat of the 
results of the Christian work in which this congregation has inter- 
ested itself during the years of its existence in this community. 

Sabbath School and Mission Work. 

The Sabbath School survived the wreck of the Church organ- 
ization which preceded us, and came floating toward us, as the 
ship's small boat often floats, after the great vessel has gone down. 
This home Sabbath School interest has always been a special one with 
not a few, of the most active members in the Church, as well as with 
the pastor; and though we do not claim to have discovered the 
secret of the highest efficiency and success, yet a genuine, and, we 
trust, Christ-like sympathy with the warm and loving heart of child- 
hood, has drawn all our hearts toward this work with an interest, 
which needed nothing factitious to nourish it. A very full memoir 
of our Sabbath School will be found in papersD. (See General Index), 
(prepared by the same pen to which we are so largely indebt ed 
throughout the volume), and in its history none can fail to mark its 
precious results in the conversion of the young. 



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Mission and Mission School Work. 

But our interest in the religious instruction of the young has not 
confined itself to the circle of our home school. It has manifested 
itself in efforts for the establishment of mission schools in different 
parts of the city and its vicinity. Near Limestone Hill, and on the 
Buffalo Plains, temporary schools were gathered. At Martin's 
Corners, under the direction of our beloved and honored brother, 
Elder Andrew Parker, whose memory is still tenderly cherished 
among us, such Mission Sabbath School labors were continued for a 
series of years, and precious results followed. At Cold Spring, also, 
though we have no right to claim that vigorous enterprise as the 
work of this Church ; yet, it is but just to say that, among the most 
active and efficient promoters of that fine school, which has now a 
beautiful and commodious chapel, are to be found many of the mem- 
bers of this Church. 

Our own Milnor Street Mission School has, I believe, in its time, 
presented as large and flourishing a record as that of any school of 
its kind in the city. Such enterprises are, of course, liable to some 
fluctuations ; but this school is full of interest to this hour. Its later 
history has been marked by precious tokens of the presence of the 
Holy Spirit, in the hopeful conversion of scores of the young men and 
women connected with its more advanced classes; and its whole 
existence is associated with the memory of one of our most active 
and efficient laborers — a man who dated his religious life among us, 
and who spent that life in devoted and useful service in the cause of 
Christ. I refer to the well-known and honored name of Elder Sam- 
uel D. Sikes. A full history of this school will be found in papers E. 
(See General Index.) 

Prisons and Institutions of Mercy. 

Early in the history of this Church, some of its older members had 
become specially interested in the case of the prisoner and the out- 
cast. Our proximity to the county jail served to present this work 
more clearly to us. It was the custom of some of our members to 
visit the jail regularly. Your pastor, when younger and stronger, 
used often to preach in the yard and corridors of the old stone jail 
which still stands near us. He discontinued his labors, there, not 
from lack of sympathy with, or hope for, the prisoner, but because it 
was impossible to care for two such important parishes ; yet, others 
of his brethren have more than supplied his lack of service. In this 



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work our dear and honored brother, Elder Peter Gowans, now- 
removed from active service by sickness, was largely engaged. The 
County Poor House for many years, and the County Penitentiary to 
this hour, have been the scene of most important and useful labors 
on the part of one or two or more of the brethren of this Church. 
And it is proper, and true to the facts of history, to state that through 
the labors and investigations of one, especially, of these brethren, 
Elder Edward Bristol, of this Church, the public mind was awak- 
ened to that interest which led to the institution of " The Home for 
the Friendless " (See F. of General Index), in which 

Woman's Work, 

No hearts or hands have been more active or useful than those of 
the Christian women of this Church. Fast upon the heels of this 
came the institution of its sister charity, " Ingleside Home." This 
institution, favored, under God, by the generous benefaction of a 
wealthy gentleman of this city, has had a history full of sacred inter- 
est; and from the very beginning it has received largely of the 
active and efficient aid and labors and prayers of the Christian 
women of this Church. (See F, General Index.) 

I am glad, also, to know that in the " Orphan Asylum," the " Hos- 
pital," and in the other works of charity, patriotism and piety, which 
the years have called forth, the activity of the " faithful women " of 
this Church and congregation has not been inconsiderable or unap- 
preciated; while at times their efficiency and hopefulness have, 
under God, given success to merciful enterprises which, otherwise, 
would have failed. 

The Ladies' Soceiety. 

It is also peculiarly appropriate to add, in making up the history 
of this church, that the society of ladies organized in this congrega- 
tion for congregational purposes, has contributed from time to time, 
large and generous sums to our congregational funds, and especially 
for the furnishing and decoration of our church and chapel. 

In the later enterprise of the Christian Woman's Association, for 
the city (see F.), this Church is, perhaps, more largely represented 
than any other, among its active workers. And last of all, but not 
least, is the interest which our women have taken in " The Woman's 
Foreign Mission Work." Not only has our Church organization for 
this work taken a large and useful share in its contributions and 
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" Woman's Presbyterial Society for Foreign Missions " has been 
largely due to the wise, yet delicate, efficiency of one or more of the 
ladies of this Church. We mention all these things in no spirit of 
pride or vain boasting, but with thoughts of deep and humble grati- 
tude to God that He has given us hearts and hands for such labors 
as these. * . 

Our Young People. 

Another feature of our organization has been that the young men 
and young women of our Church and congregation have been, in 
God's good providence, largely interested in the Bible classes, and in 
the home and mission Sabbath School work of the Church. Our 
Bible Class for young people, forms in numbers a small congrega- 
tion, and its history is full of precious spiritual results, while our 
Adult Bible Class gains steadily in interest, and will, we believe, 
grow in numbers as the importance of Bible study is prized among us. 
" The Young Men's Association," organized, and so long effectively 
sustained in connection with this Church (see G, General Index), 
has enlisted, as no other agency could have done, many of our 
young men in Christian and mission work in the congregation and 
throughout the city, while it has cultivated acquaintance and good- 
fellowship among the congregation. No Church can grow old or idle 
under the inspiration of such energy — no Church to which God pre- 
' serves this unwearied vigor of youth and strength, constantly renewed, 
like the eagle's. 

" The Cordon of Temperance" 

This organization, though of late origin, has had a history both 
brilliant and successful — none could be more so — enlisting the 
social, literary and esthetic elements in its work. It is yet faithful 
and successful in its great aim to keep before the minds of the 
young, especially, the insidious dangers and snares of the wine-cup. 
Its history will be found in papers G. It is a grave assertion of 
responsibility which is implied in that saying of the beloved Apostle, 
"I have .written unto you, young men, because ye are strong;" and 
he might have added, I have written unto you, young women, 
because ye are beautiful ; for, as there is a beauty in strength, so 
there is a strength in beauty. These, indeed, are words of honor ; 
but they are, also, words of obligation, and of condemnation, too, if 
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upon youthful follies, instead of being consecrated to true and noble 
ends. 

Do not think, my dear friends, I rehearse these items of our his- 
tory in any spirit of self-laudation. I speak freely, cheerfully, grate- 
fully of all the kindly spirit of activity and labor which God has 
given you here. I believe it has blessed you more in the act than it 
can harm you in this mention and remembrance. 



CHAPTER VI. 

MY OWN MINISTRY. 

As to my own ministry, the thirty-one full years I have passed 
here stand before me in such array, to-day, and ask me with such 
deep voices, " What have you to show for all of these rich but unre- 
deemable opportunities ? " that my heart sinks within me. If I were 
buried up in sheaves, it would not be too much wherewith to answer 
for all these years. If I could quadruple the results of my ministry, 
it would not seem too much in the covetous reckoning of such an 
hour as this; yet we will be grateful that the Great Master of the 
Vineyard has at all owned our united labors here, and be humbled 
to think how much more, perhaps, our lives might have yielded, with 
better and stronger purposes. I say united labors, for, as your 
prayers and efforts have aided my ministry, so I would humbly and 
gladly believe that my ministry has ajso aided your efforts, while 
both, I trust, have received gracious impulse from Heaven. 

Results. 

In repeating the round number, 1,400, recorded on the roll of our 
membership since my ministry commenced here, I ought again to 
allude to the exceptional weakness of our beginnings as a Church, 
and ought, also, to deduct the years that I labored here when I was 
too young to have undertaken any parish in a city. It wanted two 
months to the close of my twenty-third year, and I ought to have a 
full seven years deducted for the margin of my verdancy. Dear 
friends, pardon this poor but natural effort to cover the absence of 
larger results ; yet for such as God has graciously given us, we give 
Him humble and hearty thanks this day. 



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My Pastorate. 

I have no complete or accurate record of my parish work. All that 
I can say is, that if a busy editor has thronging " recollections of a 
busy life," so have I ; and it seems, to-day, as if I had descended, for 
a moment, from the weary tread of that restless wheel which has 
scarcely stopped or ceased, only as your considerate generosity has 
arrested it, its steady march for these thirty-one years. 

The work of a parish is a work which can never be finished, though 
it may be ended. The demands of the Sabbath and the pulpit give as 
steady a call and strain upon nerve and brain as the ceaseless "copy" 
of the daily press ; while the visitations of sickness and sorrow, the 
duties of the parish, and the multitude of extra calls upon the clergy- 
man, make his days often one constant round of occupation and 
engagement. 

Often, as I go up and down these streets, the sight of familiar 
dwellings is like the opened page of some diary full of life's highest 
joys and deepest sorrows. The bridal and the burial! the sick 
chamber ! the chamber of the dead ! the contritions of penitence ! 
the dawning hopes of the better life ! — these touch the deepest and 
highest elements of human experience. I recall one of the beautiful 
sentences of one of the great masters of English speech. It might be 
called " The Memory of a Pastorate : " 

" There were the faces of friends and foes, and of many that had 
been almost strangers, peering intrusively from the crowd; there 
were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old 
women ; there were the faces that the grave had changed and closed 
upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their 
old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the 
brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of 
clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be 
heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light to shed 
a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven." 

Among these memories are those more sacred, even — the blessed 
household countenances — father, mother, brother, children — oh ! how 
they hallow the years ! 

My Pulpit. 

When I think of the great company of children, when I think of 
the great company of souls, which, in all these years, have gathered 
about this pulpit, my heart is filled with a hope so great, so solemn, 



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so tender, I cannot utter it. Often the sense of imperfection in, or 
inadequacy to, such a ministry, has suggested the thought of change 
to another pulpit and parish, as giving one the benefit of past accu- 
mulations, and, also, of freshness and novelty to a new people ; but 
then, [the considerations that a proper and healthful use of past 
accumulations is permitted to an old pastor, and that the enamel 
of novelty is very thin, and is soon worn off, so that, unless one would 
undertake a perpetual itinerancy, it were better to stay and study and 
ask teaching of God, knowing that new things from an old teacher 
have a special zest, and that such an one, as the years go on, may 
make his ministry more large, and free, and genial, and, above all, 
that there remains to him that recognition and appropriation of 
supernatural aid which is able to make his ministry always vital and 
largely successful, — these considerations have made me feel that in 
yielding to old attachments, and loving old friends, one need not 
sacrifice the largest success of his ministry. 

Evangelistic Work. 

My preaching, for you have not been ungenerous, has not been 
confined wholly to this pulpit. I have been permitted to "range," 
as Whitefield calls it, with all the freedom which was consistent with 
my special duties to you. I have, therefore, been privileged to assist 
in precious revivals of religion in more than half a score of neighbor- 
ing parishes — in Springville, Warsaw, Attica, Alden, Lockport, Ber- 
gen, Rochester, Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Clarkson, 
Dunkirk, Westfield, and other places ; and the promise, " He that 
watereth shall be watered, also, himself," has been fulfilled to us in 
many precious seasons of special religious interest in this congrega- 
tion. We were not afraid of the odium of such seasons, when the 
Kingdom of God comes in power, and all the elements of the world's 
opposition are roused against it. We believe that there is nothing 
which will accomplish, in great cities, the results, especially among 
the poor and neglected, and which will give to religion such a hold 
upon the popular intelligence, as these seasons of the Divine power 
and presence in revivals of religion ; and that they are to attend and 
enrich the history of the Church to the end of the world, the Word 
of God seems most plainly to teach. 

Reforms. 

Another feature of the ministry, which we have endeavored to con- 
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the interests of humanity. If a Roman slave could say that nothing 
which was dear to man was alien to him, how much more impera- 
tively does such a sentiment become the Christian pulpit. This 
pulpit, therefore, was not silent, in view of that great wrong and 
crime — the system of domestic slavery, as it existed in our country — 
a crime and a shame, now, happily, in God's good providence, swept 
from the face of the land. Nor have we hesitated to give the great 
woes of intemperance a voice in this place, though both of these 
monstrous evils may have been supported by power and wealth and 
the mild compliances of men who " did not want trouble." We thank 
God that the impulses of either nature or grace (we hope there was 
something of both in the work, and both are of God) urged us to 
faithful and unsilenced remonstrance with these gigantic crimes 
against man and society. 

Patriotism. 

We rejoice, also, that we had learned and practiced the faith 
before we had learned the form of that beautiful creed, " that the 
religion of the flag is second only to the religion of the altar; " that 
he that is true to God will also be true to man and his country ; and 
that, during the darkest days of " the war for the Union," we never 
ceased to encourage your faith that loyalty and freedom were sure to 
triumph over treason and slavery. 

How absurd the clamor, my brethren, that the Christian pulpit 
could have any selfish ends in its testimony on the great moral and 
political questions of the day. When that pulpit shall, in this land, 
cease to be such a light on such questions, midnight will have fallen 
on the nation. Through all our history as a people, that voice has 
been a voice of inspiration and courage to all that has been most 
heroic and pure in our national and social life. 

The True Idea of the Church. 

If there has been one hope of my life more eager than another, it 
has been to see the Christian Church the far-advanced leader of all 
the moralities and humanities of society and the world. I could not 
bear that any should be purer or more proficient than she in the 
acquisition and illustration of all the highest and chiefest of virtues. 
Her Great Master had called her " the light of the world, the salt of 
the earth," and I desired she should nobly vindicate her high mission. 
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ures of error. Even an angel, descended here to do the world's work, 
would acquire some of its stains ; and the tares are to grow with the 
wheat till the harvest. Oh, Church of the sinless Christ ! I could not 
bear that any should falsely or weakly prate of thy imperfections, 
much less mark thy deficiencies in contrast with the mere institutions 
of men. Yet it is, perhaps, well for us to drink of this cup of needful 
humiliation, lest the cursed root of Phariseeism should choke our 
hearts as it has others. In our sober second thought, the true idea of 
the Church doubtless is, that it should contain the strong and the 
weak — some of the truest and noblest types of Christian manhood 
as well as the weak, the feeble and the doubting; and we must 
never forget " that the best of men are but men at best," and that 
there is nature with grace in the holiest of saints. 

Sabbath Evening Services. 

Twenty-five years ago last February I received a request, signed by 
a large number of my congregation, to commence a regular Sabbath 
evening service. Till that time our Churches were only opened on 
Sabbath evening for occasional services, the second public service 
of the Sabbath being usually held in the afternoon. Since that time 
we have sustained a regular Sabbath evening service ; and this has 
become the common custom of the Churches of the city. 

As to the character of these services, I have endeavored, though 
with often repeated failures, to popularize them, and make them 
attractive to all classes, especially the young. There is, of course, a 
bound, beyond which a true taste and a just Christian feeling will 
not pass in this matter; but because excess and extravagance are 
possible, shall nothing be done to win the feet of the multitudes, who 
throng our streets on the evening of the Sabbath, to the sanctuary ? 
Many have been thus drawn to hear, who, we believe, have remained 
to pray. 

The importance of the Sabbath evening hour in great centers of 
population cannot be doubted. Whether that hour shall be spent in 
the cheerful and elevating services of Christian worship, is a question 
which involves much of the blessing and profit of the Sabbath to our 
whole people. I believe Christian men, therefore, should make an 
earnest and chivalrous stand on this point, determined to lend, by 
their presence and efforts, the highest interest to these services. No 
matter how well we may have led our people to begin the Sabbath, 
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tian and cheerful worship, but is left to the frivolities of gossip and 
social visiting and amusement, we shall drift far onward toward the 
evils of the continental Sabbath. The Christian Church has in its 
hand, in its Sabbath evening services, an influence which it can wield 
with great power, and yet with no spirit of exaction, over all our 
people, and especially the young — an influence kindly, genial and 
Christian. Perhaps, however, it ought to be considered now, in the 
general prevalence of Sabbath evening services, whether at least one 
of the Churches in each of our denominations might not be profit- 
ably opened for a Sabbath afternoon service, for the accommodation 
of the aged and infirm and the very young. 

Three times, during my long service here, in addition to my usual 
vacations, I have had a more lengthy respite granted me by the gen- 
erosity of the congregation. In 1859 I made a three months' tour in 
Europe; again, in 1869, through your kindness, I was permitted to 
spend three months in California, the congregation, in the mean 
time, generously supplying my pulpit and continuing my salary ; and 
again, in the fall of 1872, you granted me nearly a two years' absence 
in Europe, continuing my salary and supplying my pulpit. For such 
generosity and consideration I have no words to thank you. They 
have given to me, under God, the years of restored health and strength 
which I now enjoy. It is proper that I should here acknowledge the 
success and interest with which you were served, during my absence, 
by my excellent brother, Rev. C. P. H. Nason, now of Chelsea, Mass., 
whose memory will long be gratefully cherished among you. I have 
taken the liberty of printing in this volume (see B. and C.)* the two 
grateful " welcomes " you gave me after my two last absences, 
believing that to you, as well as myself, they will be pleasant memo- 
rials of our history as pastor and people. 

And now, my brethren, when I consider what varieties of gifts, of 
genius, of learning and of utterance, are found in the Christian min- 
istry of this day, I say to myself, " What warrant have I to stand 
among this gifted company ? " And then I think again, oh ! the 
glory of the message shall hide a thousand defects in the messenger! 
And so I gather courage ; and so you, too, humbled, perhaps, when 
you think of the richer gifts and graces of other laborers, are to 
remember that it is the work you do which outrivals all the glory 
of gifts, all the wealth of graces ! 



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CHAPTER VII. 

OF GRATITUDE, ETC. 

As to whatever there may be in this record which calls for grati- 
tude and joy, I wish to unite, dear brethren, my own with yours. 
For any measure of success which has attended our labors here; 
for any souls which may have been brought, here, to the knowl- 
edge and love of God; for any good we may have received; for 
any help we may have been enabled to communicate to those that 
are near and those that are afar off, we here to-day bless the name 
of our God ; and, never forgetting that " the sacrifices of God are a 
broken spirit," we would acknowledge that anything which God has 
done by us, or through us, has been done amid much of imperfec- 
tion and unworthiness on our part. I desire, also, to express my own 
personal sense of gratitude to you, my brethren : steadfast through 
all these years; patient and unchanged through many trials; for- 
bearing toward all the imperfections of my ministry; so generally 
ready to aid my special labors ; so generous and considerate to all 
my needs. I desire to express to you my gratitude for your con- 
stancy and aid in all my ministry and labor? here. I know well, and 
deeply feel, that had that ministry been more Christ-like, its results 
would have been larger and more blessed. 

May God endue the years that shall remain of it more fully with 
His grace, with more singleness of aim, and with larger blessings. 

To the women of this Church and congregation, whose aid has 
been so effective here, whose labors have contributed so largely to 
our funds, whose taste has beautified our sanctuary; to the laborers 
in our Sabbath School, Bible class and mission work; to our faithful 
Elders ; to our honored Board of Trustees ; to the memories of the 
good who have departed from the earth ; to those afar off and before 
the Throne ; in a word, to all our helpers and benefactors, living or 
dead — to one, to all, and to God over all, blessed forever, the 
Fountain of all grace, blessing and strength, we here render our glad 
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When we thank God, we thank all ; for He is the Source and 
Fountain of all. We therefore tune our voices to-day to the imper- 
ishable refrain of that old Doxology : 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow ; 
Praise Him all creatures here below ; 
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly host ; 
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

Think not, my dear brethren, that these, your Christian labors, are 
excessive or vain. 

We spend millions of money, and the labors of tens of thousands 
of men, to kindle and keep burning the rock-lifted beacons along 
the line of our sea-coasts. Oh, Churches of the living God ! ye are 
beacons, uplifted along the shores of that great ocean which all must 
traverse. Shall it be thought a vain or idle thing to keep bright 
those lights — to feed with oil those ever blazing lamps — to burnish 
those mirrors which reflect their beams far out upon life's traversed 
and troubled sea? Oh, no; only the blind waves or the blinder tem- 
pest would, in their mad fury, seek to dash out those lights. The 
pirate prowler of the deep, or the grim wrecker, watching like a 
harpy for the stranded ship — these, only, could wish those lights to 
be darkened. Let us then, in God's name, in the name of Him who 
came to kindle these lights with the light of His own life, in the 
name of that blessed Spirit who feeds, with secret oil, these holy 
lamps, in the name of all the myriad and imperiled wanderers 
on life's great ocean — let us keep these beacons bright and burning, 
and may God give it to be»said of us : 

" Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same, 

Year after year, through all the silent night, 
Burns on, forevermore, that quenchless flame, 
Shines on that inextinguishable light." 



MEM O I RS. 



PREPARED AND ARRANGED BY 

WILLARD M. KNIGHT. 



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These Memoirs, the fullest of them prepared, and all of them arranged, by his 
own hand ; together with that most patient and laborious work, the preparation of 
the Historical Catalogue and our Annual Directory, we owe to the long, unwearied 
and painstaking care and toil of our brother, W. M. Knight, of this Church ; and 
I desire here, on my own behalf and on behalf of the officers and members of the 
Church and Congregation, to express our deep and grateful appreciation of this 
most valuable, yet most toilsome work, which he has accomplished for us. 

Signed on behalf of the Church and Congregation, 

G. W. HEACOCK. 



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[A.] 

DEDICATORY EXERCISES. 



REMARKS OF THE PRESS. 

Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church. — On Sabbath last, the Lafayette 
Street Presbyterian Church — Rev. Dr. Heacock, pastor — held their last service in the 
old edifice. Workmen are already engaged in removing the structure preparatory 
to the erection of a new one, of more ample proportions and elegant architecture. 
At an expense of $4,400 the trustees have secured an addition to their lot of 40 
feet in depth, and extending laterally to Washington street. On the portion of the 
lot fronting on Washington street, the new Lecture and Sabbath-School room will 
be located. 

The new building is to be enclosed, the tower completed as far as the roof, and 
the Lecture room finished for use, by the first of October next. The cost of the 
building thus far will be, we understand, about $13,000. On or before October 
first, the trustees will elect as to whether the builder shall or shall not go on with 
the work until the whole building is completed. It is now hoped that the whole 
may be finished by the first of May, 1863. The entire cost exclusive of spire 
and windows, is fixed at $16,500. The windows will probably cost $1,000 more. 
H. Rumrill, Esq., has the contract for the building; Hemphill is the architect. 

We congratulate both Dr. Heacock and his congregation, on the actual inaugur- 
ation of the movement which is to secure them a beautiful and suitable house of 
worship. — Christian Advocate, June 19, 1862. 

Dedication of the new Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church. — Last 
evening the new, large and beautiful church edifice, belonging to the congregation 
of Rev. Dr. Heacock, on Lafayette street, was formally dedicated to the worship of 
Almighty God. A large audience was present, and the services throughout were 
deeply interesting. They were begun by Rev. Dr. Chester, who pronounced the 
Invocation. Rev. Dr. Lore (Methodist) followed with reading of the Scriptures, 
and prayer was again offered by Rev. Dr. Clarke, of the First Presbyterian Church. 

The dedication sermon was then preached by Rev. Dr. Fowler, pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Utica. He chose as his text II. Chronicles, vii. I : 

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and con- 
sumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices ; and the glory of the Lord filled the house. 

The sermon was a strong and practical discourse, showing the manner in which 
God, in the present dispensation, manifests himself to his people, as compared with 
the visible manifestations vouchsafed by God to His people in the Jewish theocracy. 
At the close of the sermon the following " Dedication Hymn," written for the occa- 
sion by Prof. S, M. Hopkins, was sung by the whole congregation : 

Lift up, O builded house, thy gates; 

Spread wide the portals of thy door ; 
Thou art henceforth a place of prayer — 

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Let in the holy word of truth, 

The hallowed rites, the sacred lays : 
Let in the voice of age and youth, 

To swell the volumed sound of praise. 

Let in the Gospel of our hope, 

The balm of grief — the cure of sin ; 
Lift higher still your heads, O Gates — 

Let the bright King of Glory in ! 

Come, as Thou earnest, Lord, when words 

Of grace, distilled with every breath, 
When love to God, and love for man, 

Filled all the air of Nazareth. 

Repeat to us that heavenly strain, 

The fetter broke, the captive freed, 
The darkened eye illumed again, 

And binding up of hearts that bleed. 

Cast out, O Lord, from every mind, 

The hate of race, the love of clan ; 
Teach us the love of human kind, — 

The sacred brotherhood of man. 
Here let the tide of pity flow, 

From Christ the source thro' every breast ; 
Nor Priest, nor Levite dare forbid 

To bless the suffering and oppressed. 
O Thou, who fill'st the heavens above, 

And dwellest in the contrite heart, 
Enter, with all Thy truth and love, 

Make this Thy rest, and ne'er depart ! 

The Dedication Prayer was then offered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Heacock, and 
after singing the Doxology, the congregation was dismissed with benediction by the 
venerable Mr. Howcutt. 

The structure which is thus opened for public worship was begu^ a year ago last 
spring. Its site is that upon which, for a number of years previous, stood the small 
and inadequate Lafayette Street Church building. A large lot of land in addition 
was purchased, and thus space was obtained for one of the handsomest church 
edifices in the city. The size of the audience room is sixty by eighty-two feet 
inside, exclusive of the large vestibule ; it contains one hundred and forty pews, and 
is capable of holding about twelve hundred persons. This room has openings both 
on Washington and Lafayette streets. At the rear of the audience room, and con- 
necting therewith, is a beautiful lecture room, one hundred feet by twenty-nine, 
which will seat five hundred persons. This room is on the same floor with its larger 
neighbor, and is altogether the most comfortable, best lighted and commodious 
apartment of its class in the city. It opens on Washington street. 

The building is semi-Gothic in its architecture, and outside presents a substantial 
and exceedingly comely appearance. Inside it is furnished in the same style, and 
with admirable taste. The contractor for the building was Mr. H. Rumrill, and the 
wood work, under that contract, was done by Mr. C. S. Chapin. The windows, 
which are of stained glass, very beautiful, were furnished by Mr. Burns. Altogether, 
the church is a credit to its builders and proprietors, and worthy of the pastor who 
is to occupy its pulpit. 

The cost of the building, including the price paid for additional land, is $25,000. — 
Courier, Oct. 16, 1863. 



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[A-] 

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. 



PRELIMINARY. 

The Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D., commenced his ministry with the 
Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, on the eighth day of June, 1845. 
Its twenty-fifth anniversary fell, therefore, upon the corresponding date in the year 
1870. This being a week-day, it was decided by the Society to celebrate the fol- 
lowing Sabbath, June 12th, as the anniversary, and preparations were made accord- 
ingly. The programme included an anniversary sermon in the morning by the 
pastor ; a Sabbath School reunion in the afternoon ; and addresses in the evening 
by six brethren, who at different periods had gone out from the Church as minis- 
ters of the everlasting Gospel. 

THE MORNING SERVICE. 
The church was filled to overflowing at an early hour. The interior was pro- 
fusely decorated with evergreens and flowers, the work of the ladies of the con- 
gregation. Over the pulpit appeared the following, wrought in evergreens : 

1845. " What hath God Wrought." 1870. 
On the front of the organ-loft, was the motto, also in evergreens : 
"Our Pastor — Faithful through All." 

The services were commenced with an invocation by the Rev. A. H. Plumb, of 
Chelsea, Mass. The Rev. Albert G. Bale, of Melrose, Mass., read the parable of the 
laborers, contained in the twentieth chapter of Matthew. Prayer was offered by the 
Rev. Charles C. Johnson, of Holley, N. Y. The pastor, the Rev. Dr. Heacock, 
then delivered his Twenty-fifth Anniversary Discourse, which in these memoirs is 
superseded by the Thirty-first. 

At the close of the discourse, the Rev. William Kincaid, of Rushville, N. Y., 
offered prayer, after which the following hymn, written for the occasion, by Miss 
Mary A. Ripley, of Buffalo, was sung to the tune of " Old Hundred " : 

O God, we own the guiding love 

That sets our feet in pleasant ways ; 
We praise that power which from above 

Beholds and blesses all our days. 

Our father's God ! from age to age 

Thy chosen servants lead Thy flock, 
Where cooling streams their thirst assuage, 

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To-day we bless the shepherd's care 

Which guards with jealous watch this fold ; 
Which calls us into pastures fair, 

And shelters us from heat and cold. 

Keep Thou his soul from doubt and fear ; 

Be Thou his strong and secret tower ; 
When foes rise up, O be Thou near, 

To shield him with Thy mighty power. 

Still may he break the heavenly bread, 

When failing, fainting spirits cry ; 
Still may his life a brightness shed — ■ 

Reflected from Thy throne on high. 

And when his sacred service done, 

He lays his staff and burden down, 
Within the mansion he has won 

Grant him a fair and fadeless crown ! 

EXERCISES IN THE EVENING. 
The evening exercises were attended by a very numerous congregation, every 
portion of the church being thronged. The pulpit was occupied by the Rev. Dr. 
Heacock ; the Rev. Dr. Clarke, of Buffalo ; the Rev. Joseph Backus, of Thomas- 
ton, Conn. ; the Rev. Albert G. Bale, of Melrose, Mass. ; the Rev. Anson G. 
Chester, of Buffalo ; the Rev. Charles C. Johnson, of Holley, N. Y.; the Rev. Wil- 
liam Kincaid, of Rushville, N. Y. ; and the Rev. Albert H. Plumb, of Chelsea, 
Mass. The services opened with a solo, " How Beautiful upon the Mountains," 
written by Everett L. Baker, and sung by Mr. J. W. Bixby, after which the congre- 
gation joined in singing the 1040th hymn. Dr. Clarke read from the Scriptures 
and offered prayer. Dr. Heacock then arose and said that it had occurred to him 
that in no way could the present anniversary be more fittingly celebrated than by 
calling back to dear old Lafayette Street the six brethren who had gone forth from 
her altar to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, with the request that they 
would present to those who might be assembled in the evening of the anniversary 
Sabbath, their views in relation to the ministry. He was happy to say that all had 
responded in the affirmative to the invitation of the Church and its pastor, and he 
would begin the further duties of the evening by introducing to the congregation 
the Benjamin of his ministerial family, the Rev. Anson G. Chester, of Buffalo. 
Whereupon Mr. Chester spoke as follows : 

REMARKS OF THE REV. ANSON G. CHESTER. 
Christian Brethren and Friends : 

We are here assembled to celebrate the ecclesiastical Silver Wedding of this 
beloved and honored brother and the Church to which he was married in his youth, 
and to extend our most loving Christian congratulations to the bridegroom and the 
bride. 

I can hardly misinterpret the feelings of those who, with myself, have been 
appointed to speak to you to-night, when I say that I am sure they would delight — 
as I should delight — to deal with the legitimate sentiment inspired by this interesting 
and joyful occasion ; to yield to his tender and solemn, and, I believe, edifying and 
profitable suggestions ; and to attempt an interpretation of the poetry which haunts 
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guests we are, and whose authority we are bound to recognize, has seen fit, in his 
introductory remarks, to indicate the direction in which he desires us to send our 
thoughts, we must either treat him and the proprieties of this occasion with disre- 
spect, or repress our inevitable inclinations and speak to the text which it has 
pleased him to select for us. I know not which to admire the more in our beloved 
Doctor, the modesty which prompted him to make this unfruitful endeavor to divert 
attention from his own person to others, or the ingenuity by means of which he 
has been so gracefully trundled into the background. 

But we may magnify the office, if not the man. And certainly it must always be 
a privilege and a pleasure for those whom God, by His grace, has called to the work 
of the ministry to bear testimony to the joys and the rewards of which it is the 
source. Coming into the vineyard, as I have, at the eleventh hour, and coming so 
recently, my ministerial experience must, necessarily, be frugal in incident. Others 
may thrill you with declarations drawn from a longer and larger experience ; it 
remains for me only to express to you the more general convictions inspired by my 
new love and my new life. 

I have been long enough in the ministry to know that its joys are, at once, 
abundant and substantial. They possess. I think, a flavor which God does not per- 
mit to be imparted to any other joys. The bitter of the ministerial life may be very 
bitter, but its sweet is very sweet. If there is hemlock in its trials, there is honey 
in its satisfactions. And I am sure, dear brethren in the Lord, from whom I have 
indeed gone out, but with whom I shall ever remain in heart, sympathy and 
desire — I am sure you can neither estimate nor appreciate the gratitude and the 
joy of soul with which I declare here in your presence to-night, in the presence of 
all who have assembled to rejoice with you, and in the presence of Him who makes 
this sanctuary His dwelling place, that I would rather be the obscure and humble 
minister of Jesus, that I am, than to rule the destinies of empires, be the most 
illustrious commander that ever led his legions to victory, or possess a million 
times the wealth of all the world. There is this to encourage even the most unpre- 
tending laborer in the spiritual vineyard — that the Lord thereof gives him credit 
for what he conscientiously seeks to do, as well as for what he actually performs. 
In the kind eyes of this most loving and considerate of masters, the motive has 
merit, as well as the accomplishment — the endeavor, as well as the deed. It is the 
privileges of the ministerial office which constitute its peculiar preciousness — the 
privilege of guiding the ignorant, confirming the doubtful, bringing back the wan- 
dering, pointing the anxious to the cross, and to Him who died thereon ; making 
glad the poor, lifting up the lowly, comforting the sick, sustaining the dying, and 
bringing solace to the bereaved and sorrowing — the privilege of thinking, toiling, 
speaking, suffering, and wearing out for Christ. God only knows why it is, that when 
the glory and joy of the ministry exceed those of all other human vocations, when 
He needs thousands of helpers where now He has but one, when His cause is lan- 
guishing, when His church is so inactive, when there is so much to be done and 
when there are so few do it — He only knows why it is that, in the face of these 
facts, the feet of so small a portion in each community are turned in the direc- 
tion of the pulpit. Alas ! that the laborers should be so few, when the harvest 
is so plentiful and so ripe. 

And now may the God of all grace and mercy preserve, encourage, sustain and 
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unto him the love and the help of those whose spiritual interests are committed 
to his charge. 

May this people, mindful of his faithfulness and zeal, who is appointed to min- 
ister unto them in holy things, show their gratitude to God, and him, by concord and 
consecration, and by an unceasing exhibition of the beauty of holiness in their lives. 

And long after this night shall have been turned back upon its silver hinges into 
the past, may its memories be to him, to them, and to us all, a fragrance and a joy. 

We believe that the nuptials whose twenty-fifth anniversary we here commemo- 
rate, were sanctioned of Him, without whose endorsement marriage becomes a 
sorrow and a pang. 

" What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." 

Rev. Dr. Heacock then introduced the Rev. Charles C. Johnson, of Holley, N. Y., 
who said : 

REMARKS OF THE REV. CHARLES C. JOHNSON. 

If brother Chester is entitled to the appellation of the Benjamin of this band of 
sons, may not I presume to be called the yoseph? Allow me to set Dr. Heacock 
right in regard to the date of my marriage. I took me a wife just previous to 
matriculation at the Theological Seminary, that I might not be led to violate the 
rule of that institution relating to matrimony. In the discourse of the morning, 
our Pastor alluded to evangelistic labors at Clarkson, N. Y. In the early spring of 
1853, he came to assist the young pastor at that village in a revival. My acquaint- 
ance with Dr. Heacock began then and there. During the week that he preached 
at Clarkson, I found peace in believing in Christ. I have reason to believe that 
his personal interviews with me were blessed of God, as instrumental in leading 
me to the Saviour. Shortly after I made my first visit to Buffalo, and heard Mr. 
Heacock (not then a D. D.) in his own pulpit. I remember that, attending the 
young people's prayer meeting of Lafayette Street Church, I had not then the courage 
to " stand up for Jesus." Three years later I made my home in Buffalo. I found 
a warm welcome from the young brethren of this Church, as I timidly joined their 
prayer circle. I united with this Church by letter in 1856, and was identified with 
it for ten years, or until I left Buffalo to pursue Theological studies at Auburn. 
The loving words and spiritual counsel of the pastor ; the earnest type of piety of 
his people ; the sympathetic kindness of the brethren were matters of thankful- 
ness then, and to me proved a means of healthy development. The moral atmos- 
phere of such a Church was invigorating ; the spirit of work for the Master was 
contagious. The kind encouragement of some of the brethren to me, a diffident 
country lad, is not forgotten, nor its influence lost. With them I have since labored 
in mission work in various Sunday Schools and mission stations. 

Memories come thronging back to-night bringing so many incidents that I hardly 
know which to select : Memories of revivals, when scores of souls found Christ as 
their Saviour under the guidance of our Pastor; memories of signal trophies of 
grace, some of the subjects of which, having witnessed a good profession, have 
passed over the river, and whose glorified spirits are looking from the bright shores 
beyond with delight on these scenes of to-day. 

My attention was called early in my Christian experience to the question of 
entering the Gospel ministry. After years of wavering and partial decision, and 
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Walter Clarke to leave business and enter on the study of Theology. Thank you, 
brother ! (addressing Dr. Clarke) for loosening the fetters which were binding me 
to a secular avocation ! Thank you, brother ! (addressing Dr. Heacock) for lead- 
ing me to the Saviour, and first directing my thoughts to the ministry ! Thanks be 
to Thee, my Saviour ! for permitting me to work as an humble laborer for the 
upbuilding of Thy Kingdom ; for the privilege of preaching the unsearchable 
riches of Thy Gospel ! 

Is it a wonder that any of us should have formed a strong personal attachment 
to our beloved pastor, who, has so long and faithfully performed the duties of an 
under-shepherd ? Am I overstepping the bounds of propriety, if thus, publicly, I 
acknowledge my own regard and affection for him? With him I have been on the 
march and in the bivouac. From his lips I have heard repeated messages of 
admonition, encouragement and consolation. Is it at all a wonder that tendrils of 
affection should bind my heart in strong attachment to his ? Before me I see the 
words, " Our Pastor — Faithful through All." I apprehend that to be less 
than the truth. He has been not only faithful through all, but faithful in all. His 
great heart, warm and loving, has made his influence a blessing to all upon whom 
it has been exerted. He shines a brighter light than that in yonder lighthouse, for 
he has lighted many a soul to the harbor of peace and eternal joy. But his light is, 
after all, only a reflected light, the light reflected from the Sun of righteousness, the 
spirit of his Lord and Master shining out through him. The unconscious influence 
of such a spirit is even beyond our apprehension. Like the leaf-print in the solid 
sandstone, produced by the falling of a leaf upon the clay, which afterward 
indurates to rock, so the influence of an earnest, devoted, consistent life and exam- 
ple has made an impression on plastic minds and character never to be effaced. 
And now may I wish for us who are following his footsteps in this glorious calling 
and work, as best we may, according to the strength and opportunity given us, the 
same' faithfulness and success. May the Lord graciously prolong his days, and 
increase the measure of his usefulness. May he, our beloved pastor, long hold up 
the standard of truth ; may he hold it up until his tongue shall lack the strength 
for its utterance ; may he hold up its pure, unsullied banner until his right arm 
shall fail ; may he hold it up in all its loveliness and beauty, until its white folds 
shall enfold him in a winding-sheet, and he be gathered unto his fathers. 

The next speaker was the Rev. Albert G. Bale, of Melrose, Mass. His remarks 
follow : 

REMARKS OF THE REV. ALBERT G. BALE. 
(From the Courier of June, 1870.) 
Mr. Bale spoke of his reception of the invitation to be present on this occasion, 
and related how his great desire to be present induced him to overcome all obsta- 
cles. He graphically detailed the burning of his first church in Utica, a year and 
a half ago, and used the fact that the spire fell without injuring the cross at its 
apex as a symbol of the truth that, whatever may fail, the cross will triumph. He 
alluded to his sensations during a visit to Niagara Falls on the previous day, when 
memories long slipped away, came back with overpowering force. So, in the place 
where he stood, thoughts had come to him which it was beyond his power to 
recall. That place was very dear to him, for there his heart had first been 
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him deeply, and of his subsequent tender care for the welfare of his soul, and 
wise direction of his thoughts to the ministry ; and attributed his entrance upon 
that work directly to his connection with Lafayette Street Church. He would 
like to enlarge upon the fact, that this pastor and this Church, conformed com- 
pletely to his ideal of what such should be. He had been amazed at the memorial 
service in the morning, to hear from what small beginnings this result had been 
attained. But the work of the Church was only begun. This was their twenty-fifth 
anniversary, and it would repeat itself for glory or reproach. He exhorted the 
Church to labor in all Christian work. The great battle between Romanism and 
Protestantism was to be fought in this State and the West. If Lafayette Street 
Church would go on as it had begun, its part in the conflict would be ably 
performed. 

The Rev. William Kincaid, of Rushville, N. Y., was then presented to the audi- 
ence, whom he thus addressed : 

REMARKS BY REV. MR. KINCAID. 

I have seemed to myself, dear friends, during the affecting and precious memo- 
rial services of this day, like unto one standing before a canvas upon which a dis- 
solving view is gradually, point after point, appearing. Now, at the close of the 
day, the picture stands complete and well defined before me. I see a strange boy, 
clad in country homespun, entering shyly the door of the Lafayette Street Church 
that was, dropping timidly into a seat, and drinking in, with swelling heart, the 
words of spirit and of life spoken by the pastor. I see him a few weeks after 
retiring from the evening service, refreshed and strengthened by what he has heard, 
but with a feeling of isolation and home-sickness in his heart, and saying to the 
friend with whom he happens to be, almost his only friend in the city, that " young 
people's meeting, of which notice was given to-night, I should like to attend it." 
I see a loving arm thrown around his neck from behind, and I hear a kindly voice 
saying, " Would you though ? Come with us, then, to-morrow night, and welcome ! " 
I see him there, week after week, in the young people's meeting not only, but in 
the Bible Class and Mission Sabbath School, acquiring for the first time a taste for, 
and a taste of, labor for the Saviour, and afterwards in the pastor's study confess- 
ing his desire to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ unto others. Still later, 
I discern him pushing his way, by the help of God, through innumerable difficulties 
and discouragements, to the sacred desk, and at last proclaiming with a humble 
measure of success, it may be, but with a glorious measure of happiness, the Gos- 
pel to his fellow-men. When all this picture rises before me, I exclaim, " Can it 
be possible that that boy was I ? " And then my heart rises in gratitude, first to 
God, and then to our beloved pastor, for all the way in which I have been led to 
this present happiness. 

Allusion has been made to-night to the influence exerted by our pastor on the 
young men who have gone forth from here. Well, there is a happy influence, I 
think, which his intensely earnest and positive character has exerted upon our 
outward characteristics and peculiarities ; I mean, and I shall be pardoned for 
alluding to it, upon our deportment, style of thought, manner of speech and so on. 
It has been said that you always may recognize a Lafayette Street man by half an 
hour's conversation with him. There is truth, I think, in that remark. I remem- 
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isters. When the services were over a clerical brother took me by the hand and 
said, " I thank you for that sermon ; it was good, there was so much Dr. Heacock 
in it." Well, I have never consciously imitated any man in these respects, much 
less so poor a preacher as Dr. Heacock has just represented himself to be ; never- 
theless, I have no doubt his stamp has, to a degree, been put upon me, and I 
rejoice in it ; I glory in belonging to the type of Lafayette Street men. I have 
read somewhere of a venerable Scotch Presbyterian divine, who had brought up in 
his congregation and prepared to preach the Gospel, a young man, to whom he sur- 
rendered his pulpit one Sabbath morning, while he, himself, sat below to criticise 
him and try his parts. After the service some one asked the aged minister how he 
liked the sermon. " It was excellent," said he, " but some confidential friend of 
that young man should tell him that he has a disagreeable shrug of his shoulders, 
which destroys the force of almost all he says." " Why, Doctor," exclaimed the 
questioner, " that shrug he has learned from you. I never knew you when you were 
without it." Now, I think my brethren in the ministry here, will agree with me, 
when I say that we have learned nothing in this way from our beloved pastor that 
we could wish to unlearn. 

But of that, his higher and more precious influence, which shaped in so large a 
degree, our characters, purposes and lives, how can I befittingly speak ? What 
principles of freedom and reform, of loyalty to God and loyalty to our country, of 
siding with, the right as against the wrong, with the weak as against the powerful, 
with the oppressed as against the oppressor ; what ideas and purposes of a higher 
spiritual life, a nearer and more blessed work and fellowship with God have we 
derived from his teaching and example ! Ah, those precious Sabbaths of '57 and 
'58 ! Never shall I see their like again, for never will any Sabbath so appeal to 
my boyish imagination. The solemn tones of the organ, the sweet notes of the 
singers, the tender voice of prayer, the touching appeal to the sinner ! How often 
have we sung at the close of the evening service the lines, 

" How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend, 
In hope of one that ne'er shall end." 

When I have felt them through and through, and have thought that such a Sabba f h 
as this was my highest ideal of heaven. 

But those scenes and associations have passed forever. It remains for us to do 
the work of to-day. And it seems to me that the conditions of success in that 
work are exactly expressed in the mottoes that are gracefully displayed at either 
end of this auditorium : " What hath God Wrought" and "Our Pastor — Faithful 
through All! y The faithfulness of God and the faithfulness of man; the divine 
promise, " Lo, I arrf with you always," and the human vow to be " Steadfast, 
immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord ;" Christ, the great Captain, 
at the head, and that glorious Apostolic succession that has been referred to to-night, 
the succession of faithful men able to teach others also. 

The subjoined remarks were then made by the Rev. Albert H. Plumb, of Chelsea, 
Mass., who was the next speaker introduced : 

REMARKS OF THE REV. ALBERT H. PLUMB. 

We have come to you, my friends, at the call of this Church, and we all desire to 
thank the Church for bringing back so many of its former members to this dear and 
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It is in accordance with philosophical principles, and with the constitution God 
has given us, that we should be drawn by peculiar attachments to the place where 
memorable events have occurred, and that their influences of especial power should 
be felt. Poets range up and down history to find the place where mighty deeds 
have been wrought, and in person or in spirit, they visit that spot seeking inspiration 
for their song. But what place can be more hallowed, more rich in holy memories, 
more mighty in inspiring influences, than the place where the Lord Almighty 
comes down to work like himself, regenerating and sanctifying man? "We recognize 
this endeared and familiar place, where we are gathered, as such a spot. Whether 
we think of that little room in the basement of the old church, where we used to 
meet for prayer, of the Sabbath School rooms, or of the well -remembered pews 
where the sword of the Spirit so often pierced us through, that which thrills our 
hearts to-day is the feeling that here God made bare his holy arm. Looking back 
over the long years, we bow before Him to-day, and exclaim, "What hath God 
Wrought " in giving us " Our Pastor — Faithful through All" ! 

Personally, I come to own my debt of gratitude to this Church and its pastor. 
Already feeling, when I came here, the baleful influence of the allurements of a 
large city upon my religious life, it was here that influence met a counteracting 
force. The cordial manner of the members of this Church, their zeal and love, and 
the faithful voice of our pastor recalled me, I trust, to a more spiritual life. And 
I verily believe it was the unconscious influence of the example I had before me 
that fanned into a flame my trembling desire to become a preacher myself ; and 
the fact that I am a preacher, is to-day, as it has been amid the burdens and bless- 
ings of all these intervening years, my consolation and my joy. 

Since our pastor has charged us to be sparing in our references to him, I will try 
to give you now my idea of a model ministry ; to tell you what kind of a minister I 
like, without saying who is the man, or where the ministry has been fulfilled. 

Certainly the grand characteristic of a true preacher should be spiritual life. 
He must be a devoted man, so much so that his single-mindedness, like the honesty 
of Lincoln, shall be beyond doubt. Assuredly it is a great advantage ; I used to 
regard it such in dealing with caviling minds, to be able to point to one's pastor, 
and to have the mouth of the gainsayer stopped by the sight of a life unre- 
servedly given to the Kingdom of God. Such a man, and only such an one, can 
preach with fidelity and with good effect, the solemn messages of the Bible against 
sin. 

Another desirable quality in a minister is energy. He has^ important offices* to 
fulfill, and he should give himself to them with all his might, mind and strength. 
With an enthusiasm of earnestness let him lift up his voice for the truth. With a 
solemn appreciation of the dignity and value of his humblest offices, let him throw 
his whole soul into their performance, and he will be an efficient minister of the 
Word. Even the reading of the hymns in the service such a man conducts, will 
be of lasting benefit. It is seventeen years since I left the congregation of one 
such man, and I can remember to-day the very tones with which he used to render 
certain hymns. When his Church adopted congregational singing, though I 
regretted the change, since I think there are some valuable kinds of church music 
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pense with artistic singing than some Churches can, for its hymns are always read." 
Indeed there are many hymns, such as, 

" Again the Lord of life and light 
Awakes the kindling ray ; " 

Or, 

" Great God ! how infinite art Thou ! " 

Or, 

" Mighty God ! while angels bless Thee, 
May a mortal lisp Thy name," 

• 

Which I have often said I would rather hear read by that pastor than sung by any 
choir. 

One more quality in the model minister I name. He should be a man eminent 
for broad, impartial sympathies. Remembering that Christ tasted death for every 
man, he should love man as man, and labor for him with generous zeal, whatever 
his condition in life. The light the preacher holds forth should be not like the 
locomotive lamp, with patent reflectors sending its rays on its own path alone, but 
rather like the blazing beacon, lifted high over the stormy waves, amid rocks and 
shoals, and shedding its kind illumination alike on all. 

It is a satisfaction to remember that these requisites for ministerial success are 
within the reach of all ; and the large influence in the ministry of some men of 
unusual natural talent, is probably more the result of these simple qualities, than 
of the fine powers with which they are endowed. 

But while we give thanks to God to-night for a successful ministry, no one will be 
more ready than our pastor to declare that a ministry can accomplish little without a 
Church. In God's plan the mothers in Israel, as well as the pastors and teachers, 
have their place, and it is not given us now to know whether the prominent Chris- 
tian, or the obscure one, is most useful in the eye of God. And when that hour 
shall come to which we have been thrust forward in our sadder thoughts to-day, 
when the sickle shall drop from the nerveless hand of this now stalwart reaper, and 
a weeping Church shall gather here to commemorate a ministry closed, when this 
pastor shall have entered into the society of the redeemed on high, and those lines 
of influence which are hidden now shall be unveiled to sight, then will he turn to 
one and another of those dear saints who have gone to glory from this Church — 
many whose names we recall with tearful tenderness to-day — or to some of those who 
shall hereafter be gathered home from his people, and with overflowing gratitude 
shall say, " Now, I see that it was by your unceasing prayers in my behalf, by 
your mighty prevailing faith in God, that his gracious favor through all those years 
descended on my labors as a minister of His Word." 

Let no one think, because our pastor rejoices in the good these twenty-five years 
have brought, that his chief thought is how much has been done by himself. 

You remember when the disciples returned again with joy to Christ, saying, 
" Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name," that Jesus replied, 
while acknowledging the mighty deeds they had wrought, "Notwithstanding, in 
this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you." Did he mean to rebuke the 
natural joy of the Christian at the conquests of the Kingdom of God? Place the 
emphasis right, and the meaning is clear : " Rejoice not that the spirits are subject 
unto you." Anyone else whom God might have chosen and qualified, could have 
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bring special obligations. But the Saviour then taught them there is one thing 
in which his ministers may freely rejoice without danger of spiritual pride ; there 
is a joy they may have safely, for they have it in common with the humblest dis- 
ciple. " Rather rejoice," said Jesus, " because your names are written in heaven." 
How blessed then, the fact, that there is not one of us here of all these fellow- 
laborers in the Sabbath School and the Church, of all these, too, who long have 
heard the sweet invitations of the gospel from this pastor's lips, but unhappily 
have heard them as yet in vain — not one who may not even now be partaker of his 
joy, and have each in his own heart, that deep, pure rejoicing which is his chief pos- 
session to-night; the rejoicing with humble thanksgivings to sovereign and almighty 
grace, that his name is written in heaven. 

We were told by our pastor this morning that this anniversary is a day of solemn 
stillness to him. The weary treadmill of labor, he tells us, which has paused not 
for the past twenty-five years, to-day has seemed to turn slower on its axis, and at 
length the great wheel has stopped, its deafening din has ceased, and in the hush 
and pause this patient toiler here, wipes his moistened brow, and looks about him 
for an hour, awaiting till the morrow, when the resounding reyolutions shall again 
begin. 

And to me, in the stillness of this solemn day, there seems to come ethereal 
voices speaking to our hearts. There are sounds, we are told, so rapid in their 
vibrations, like the chirping of the cricket, as to be inaudible to some ; and it is 
said, were our ears attuned to those finer vibrations with which the trembling air 
is unceasingly filled, we might, perhaps, hear these flowers sweetly hymning the 
praise of Him who made them forms of beauty and ministers of grace ; nay, the 
music of the spheres, even, might come floating down to us, enrapturing our souls 
and lifting them into harmony with God. I remember, a few years ago, our good 
friend Edward Bristol, of this Church, came over from Boston one night to our 
prayer-meeting, and after it, took my arm and walked up to my home. At the 
door I paused, and standing in the darkness under the open sky, I said, " What 
do you hear ? " He listened, and then for the first time in his life, there fell upon 
his ears the hoarse murmur of the distant sea — the dull, subdued roar of the rest- 
less ocean, as its mighty billows, one after another, rolled in unceasingly on the 
craggy shore. " Friend Plumb," said he, with a tightened grasp upon my arm, " is 
that the sea? I never heard such an awful sound before. Oh," he added, "what 
must be the feeling of the dying soul, when the sound of the great ocean of eternity 
first breaks upon its startled ear ! " 

My friends, the voices to which our souls are now awake, are sounding to us, it 
seems to me, from that far-off shore. They are voices of admonition and warning, 
not only, but of encouragement and hope. Let each one interpret them for himself, 
that their utterance be not in vain. In the years to come may there be many who 
shall here join the ranks of Christian laborers, many who shall enter the ministry of 
the word, and who shall hereafter turn to him who shall have been to them, as to 
us, the minister of God, and say to him, as we do now, " Oh, dear and honored 
pastor ; oh, noble, dauntless leader, may we follow thee as thou hast followed 
Christ." 

The Rev. Joseph Backus, of Thomaston, was the last to address the congregation! 
He said, : 



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REMARKS OF THE REV. JOSEPH BACKUS. 

I am glad to hear myself called one of the young ministers. So much for being 
found in good company. Our pastor, as we still delight to call him, styles himself 
to-day, "a bit of a Bishop." I suppose it is due to the inexperience and verdancy 
of our youth as regards such a title, that we involuntary exclaim, " if this is only a 
bit of a Bishop, I wonder what a whole one must be? " 

I cannot tell you, my friends, the joy I feel at the privilege of 'being present with 
you this evening. There are secrets of the inner life that you cannot tell if you 
try ; emotions so mysterious and sacred, as wholly to baffle the power of words to 
express them. Such are the impossibilities that confront me upon this occasion. 

I came to this city a mere boy, just out of college, to find my first experience of 
responsible life. There was not an individual in the city on whose face I had ever 
looked. Thus cast upon the fortunes of life without friends or patronage, the 
gravest questions of success soon arose before me. How different was real life 
from student life. To pass from a four year's shelter beneath the watch and care 
of teachers, into the exposures of a bustling city, without claim of friendly sym- 
pathy or kindly assistance, is a great and eventful change. To me, the experi- 
ences of such a change, stand associated with this goodly city. Even if it were 
possible to do it, I must not stay to tell of the heart sinkings, the loneliness, the 
fears of failure, the distressing doubts, which at that time darkened my early life. 
The world seemed more than a match for my bravest endeavors, while the gay and 
busy life around me, so unconscious of my wants, seemed only to deepen my sense 
of the dark fortunes upon which I was cast. 

In these youthful trials I was looking for a Sabbath home. At different times I 
attended most of the Evangelical churches in the city, and always, I think, with a 
sincere and conscientious desire to find that spiritual refreshing which constitutes 
the true Sabbath rest. Several of the larger and more influential Churches were 
named to me as the natural resort of one whose success depended so much upon 
wealth and patronage, but for some reason or other I failed to find a home in any 
of them. One Sabbath afternoon, by some happy accident, I found myself upon 
Lafayette street. I believe this Church had never been named to me before, and I 
rather claim the honor of being one of its early discoverers. The congregation, 
that afternoon, might have been seated in almost any parlor without crowding it. 
But I felt comforted and quickened by the earnest words of the youthful pastor, 
whom I began to love then, and have loved as a brother ever since. In the prayer- 
meetings I found such friends as I most needed — Christian friends. I soon became 
engaged in Church and Sabbath School work, and found the cheering influences of 
Christian brotherhood rapidly brightening my life. In addition to this new 
impulse of hope the spirit of God came down, awakened new purposes, opened ia 
my mind new and larger expectations of faith, gave a new view of Divine Provi- 
dence ; in a word, wrought a silent, but most comforting victory over the world, 
through Christ. I shall never forget that change in my religious life. I associate 
it with all that gives value to life, and in all the after scenes of life, remember it as 
the dear pledge of God's renewed revelation of himself to my soul. If I have 
found any comfort of faith ; if I have been able to preach Christ with any benefit 
to my fellow-men ; ever been able to exert any influence for good, I owe it, under 
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One incident I may be allowed to mention here. During the time to which I 
allude, I discovered a new passage of Scripture, which I have carried close to my 
breast ever since. It is in the Gospel of Matthew, vi. 19-34. I say new passage, 
for no new manuscript brought out from its hidden tomb of convent or old library 
ever has a sweeter fragrance of new discovery than this, about that time, had to me. 
Its lessons of trust in God, I had never fairly learned before. They have been an 
unfailing resource of spiritual good to me ever since. I never read it without think- 
ing of Buffalo, and especially of this Church. I sat down this morning in my room 
and my Bible would not open to any other place. I read it over with tears of joy. 
It set me back twenty-two years in life. It brought 1848 and 1870 together in 
loving fellowship and holiest congratulation. It is my privilege once more to read 
these words of Christ in this city of a Sabbath day. It is like reading the 17th of 
Acts, sitting upon Mars Hill, in Athens, or any other Scripture story on the spot 
where it was enacted. It is as if God had said : " I told you this twenty years ago, 
haven't you found it true ? " And I could say, " Yes, Lord, I bear my fullest testi- 
mony to-day to Thy great goodness and unfailing fidelity." 

But we are invited this evening to say a word as to -our views and experience in 
the Gospel ministry. I hasten then, to say, first, that I love it. I say it emphatic- 
ally and deliberately. Many of my classmates are business men. They are mak- 
ing fine successes in their line, and I delight to honor them as men of influence 
and usefulness. You have one of them in this city (to whose hospitality, by the 
way, I would like to recommend this audience). Still, I am free to say, that I 
would not exchange the pi-ivilege of preaching Christ for the most flattering pros- 
perity of any or all of them. To live in the hope of administering comfort in the 
name of Christ ; to put men in a better way of living ; to watch the improvement 
of the individual or the family under the influence of the truth ; to stand by my 
fellow-mortals in the great exigencies of their being, and point them to heaven, is 
the work of all others I best love. And especially to preach the gospel to the poor. 
This is another lesson from the 6th of Matthew. Jesus loves the poor, and speaks 
his sweetest words to them. " To the poor the Gospel is preached." It is the 
more pleasant to speak of this, because this Church so fully recognizes this obliga- 
tion, and in so doing furnishes such decisive proof of being in the line of true Apos- 
tolic descent. This work of preaching the Gospel to the poor, fairly involves the 
idea of individual effort — of lay preaching — active usefulness on the part of the 
Church. For without this, the Gospel idea of preaching can never be realized. My 
heart, therefore, warms with a new affection for this Church, as I see it so thor- 
oughly grasping the idea of a true Evangelism as to carry the Gospel, through its 
members, to those who do not come to hear it. This is indeed the life of piety, and 
the life of a Church. Nothing will so soon kill a Church as a certain kind of 
respectability and eloquent preaching. 

Patience, too, is a good thing in our work ; let us learn to labor and to wait ; let 
us not be in a hurry. God works slowly. Too much haste brings swift defeat to 
the best intentions. Truth will prevail ; we can afford to wait for it. It is a good 
attainment to be able to watch with composure the conflicts of good and evil, and 
even to suffer temporary defeat without alarm ; to be " cast down," without being 
" destroyed." Let us calmly wait for the silent triumph of principles without mul- 
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results of our toil, and also be thankful if we cannot ; in either case being assured 
that the word of God never returns void. 

But our time is passing. These reflections have to me an additional interest 
from this anniversary occasion. We stand upon an eminence, and all around is 
hushed and subdued, like a sunset scene. The bustle of the busy day subsides. 
The throngs of life are disappearing, and many a path is deserted. The voices 
around us have partially ceased, but we hear mysterious voices from the land of 
silence. A holy presence seems to assert itself, and our own voices fall to a whis- 
per. The still splendors of declining day overpower us. And yet it is not a sad 
hour. For out of the falling fortunes of the day, there springs a golden promise 
pointing to the other side of the night, and giving us an earnest of the morning. 
So, my friends, in taking our leave of the*quarter century past, we sink into no 
desponding mood. The past disappears, but it leaves a brightness behind it. We 
have, moreover, a good hope that the morning cometh, the rising of a better day 
that knows no decline, no fluctuation of fortune, no bitter changes. " And so shall 
we ever be with the Lord." 

At the conclusion of the address, Dr. Heacock indulged in a few feeling remarks, 
a hymn was sung, the benediction was pronounced by Dr. Clarke, and the exercises 
closed. 

The following letter, just received, finds an appropriate place here, the writer 
having been converted under the preaching of our pastor, though never connected 
with us as a member. The letter tells the story : 

730 Fourth St., S. E., 
Washington, D. C, June 1, 1876. 

Rev. G. W. Heacock, D. D. 

My Dear Doctor: Yours of May 30th, is just received. Very glad to know that 
you do not forget to " reckon me among those dating the beginning of their reli- 
gious life in connection with " your Church. / shall never forget the very precious 
meetings in your Church which welcomed a returning prodigal, and certainly retain 
a very warm place in my heart for yourself, who, under God, led me to Christ. I 
do not recall the exact date — think it was in the spring of '52 — but it was when 
H. E. Baker was converted. [March 14, 1853.] 

I joined the Second Baptist Church of Cleveland, being an Express messenger 
from C. to B. I pursued my studies at Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., from 
'54 to '59 ; settled at Youngstown, O., in January, i860 ; no Church there at the 
time. The organization and my ordination both occurred at the same time, June 
20, i860. Resigned July 1, 1872, leaving a Church of three hundred members and 
a fine brick house of worship. 

Settled with the Second Church, Washington, D. C, October 1, 1872. God has 
given me a fair measure of success here, and I am still endeavoring to " hold the 
fort." 

I rejoice in the grand good work the Lord has accomplished by you, and trust 
you have many years and joyous harvests yet before you in connection with your 
dear people. Should you visit this city, I trust you will not pass me by ; a hearty 
welcome awaits you. Please send me one of your anniversary sermons when 
published. Very truly yours, 

W. M. INGERSOLL. 

[We have been unable to obtain anything from Rev. David F. Stuart.] 



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THE FAREWELL AND WELCOME, 

GIVEN TO THE REV. GROSVENOR W. HEACOCK, D. D., BY HIS 
TEOPLE, AUGUST 31ST— AND DECEMBER i 3 th, 1869. 



INTRODUCTION. 

In the month of August, 1869, the Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D., pastor of 
the Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y., received an invitation from 
the members of the Howard Church, San Francisco, California, to supply its pulpit 
for the coming three months. Their own pastor, the Rev. Henry M. Scudder, D. D., 
had been offered a vacation for that period. 

Doctor Heacock having laid the matter before his Church, a meeting was called, 
for the purpose of taking action thereupon, at the close of the morning service, on 
Sunday, August 29th. Henry Childs, Esq., was chosen to preside. The object of 
the meeting having been stated, Edward Bristol, Esq., made an appropriate and 
feeling speech, after which formal permission was given to Doctor Heacock to 
supply the pulpit of the Howard Church, as requested. 



THE FAREWELL. 

On the evening of the thirty-first of August, the members of Doctor Heacock's 
Church and congregation assembled in the chapel, for the purpose of taking leave of 
their beloved pastor, he having decided to start for California on the following day. 
The exercises were introduced by interesting remarks from the Rev. Doctor Ball, of 
the Niagara Square Baptist Church, who had just returned from a visit to California. 
The Rev. Wolcott Calkins, of the North Church, offered prayer, commending pastor 
and people unto Him in whose protection, alone, we can feel secure. 

Anson G. Chester then stated that, while the proper formalities incident to the 
temporary separation of the pastor from his flock had been duly accomplished on 
the previous Sabbath, it had seemed to many of the brethren that some written 
expression of the feelings which they experienced in parting with their beloved 
shepherd and friend was due, alike, to him and them. He had, therefore, prepared, 
and asked permission to read, the farewell letter which follows : 



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Beloved Pastor : 

Called, in the providence of God, to say farewell to you for a season, we desire to 
give expression to the emotions which possess our hearts in this parting hour. 

In the voice which has spoken to you from the margin of the Pacific, we recog- 
nize diviner accents than human lips have power to utter. We believe that there 
is some special and appointed work for you to perform during your brief sojourn 
in the far-off city to which you have been so suddenly and unexpectedly summoned. 
It is this conviction that underlies our consent to a separation which, were we 
to consult our merely selfish inclinations and preferences, we could heartily wish 
to avoid. 

We ask you, as you go from us, to bear with you the assurance that at no time 
since you commenced your long and most acceptable ministry among us have you 
been dearer to our hearts than now ; that our appreciation of the value of your 
devoted and unceasing efforts in behalf of this Church and people was never broader, 
or more loving, than it is to-night ; that we are abundantly and thankfully satisfied 
with him who for so many years has sustained towards us the complex and exalted 
relation of teacher, pastor and friend, and that we want and ask no other. 

We pledge ourselves that, while you are gone from us, we will seek to maintain 
a spirit of perfect harmony and fellowship ; that we will strive after fidelity in the 
performance of every Christian duty ; that our feet shall not be kept from the sanc- 
tuary, upon the Sabbath, save through the interposition of inexorable obstacles ; 
and that no common hindrances shall prevent us from attending the appointed 
meetings of the week. When others shall speak to us in your stead, we will think 
of you ; and when we assemble ourselves together for the purpose of calling on the 
name of our common Lord in prayer, you shall be remembered in your every neces- 
sity and interest. 

. Those who are so dear to you shall be very dear to us in your long absence, 
and we promise that we will, as far as in us lies, contribute to their comfort and 
happiness. 

We earnestly pray that the God and Father of us all will "give His angels charge 
over you as you journey to the land whose bosom teems with hidden treasure ; that 
your surroundings in your temporary home may be all that your heart could wish ; 
that the Master will be pleased munificently to bless you in the special work to which 
He invites you ; and that, when it is performed, you may be restored to your family 
and your people, invigorated in body, replenished in energy, and laden with useful 
and generous experience. Our reluctance at parting with you is tempered by our 
anticipations of the unaffected delight with which we shall welcome you back, to 
engage with us, again, in His service who is to you and to us the beginning and the 
end of desire. 

And now, shepherd ever watchful, and friend most true and tender, we commend 
you, with our love and prayers, into His safe and gentle custody who guardeth and 
keepeth Israel. May He defend and succor you and yours and us until we all may 
meet again, and forevermore. And may He unite us all, at last, in His gracious 
presence, where, alone, there is fullness of joy. 

The reading concluded, Seth Clark, Esq., moved that the letter be adopted as 
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asking those to rise who favored the proposition. Whereupon, the members of 
the Church unanimously arose, thus attesting their approval of the sentiments of 
the letter. 

Doctor Heacock made a very tender and touching response, after which the con- 
gregation united in singing the hymn commencing, "Blest be the tie that binds." A 
benediction was then pronounced by Doctor Heacock, and those present crowded 
around him to bid him Godspeed on his journey to the golden land. 

On the following day Doctor Heacock took his departure for California. 



THE WELCOME. * 

On Monday, December 13th, Doctor Heacock returned to his home and his people. 
In anticipation of his return, a meeting of the Church and congregation was held, a 
fortnight before, and the following committee appointed to make arrangements for 
his formal reception : 

- Mrs. Selim Sears, Mr. H. H. Hale, 

Mrs. John S. Trowbridge, Mr. W. M. Knight, 

Mrs. S. N. Lawrence, Mr. J. W. Chatman, 

Mrs. John J. MaglaucHlIN, Mr. Geo. L. Squier, 

Mrs. Wm. H. Adams, Mr. Anson G. Chester. 



The arrangements for the reception were duly completed, and it was announced 
to take place in the church at 8 o'clock, on the evening above named. We here 
quote from a report of the exercises which appeared in the Buffalo Express of 
December 14th: 

" The church had been beautifully decorated for the occasion, the chief ornaments, 
next to the rows of fresh, eager, girlish faces, being the other flowers handsomely 
arranged in vases and baskets and wreaths about the desk, and an evergreen motto 
above the pulpit bearing the words ' Welcome Home ! ' Fern, China-asters, tube- 
roses, fuchsias, the red monthly rose and the white camelia, with pendent sprays of 
ivy, combined to make a show of June in the heart of December, typical of the 
affections that are fostered by the tender warmth of Christian culture in the cold 
natural heart of earth. 

" Eight was the hour set for the Doctor's appearance, and the densely packed 
audience began to exhibit signs of impatience, and the little ones, particularly, to 
stretch their necks and wonder when he would come. At last, 'Sweet Home' 
pealed from the organ, and there was a sudden hum and flutter next the doors, which 
quickly spread to the very corners of the church. Then there was a sudden rising 
of the dark mass and a breaking out of white hands and handkerchiefs, energetically 
waving and beckoning enthusiastic welcomes to the tall, dark -bearded man, who 
stru ggl e( l U P the aisle against a very barricade of proffered hands which threatened 
to shake all his manly and assured composure out of him." 

As the returned pastor neared the pulpit he was met by a number of the clergy- 
men of the city, who had been assembled in the chapel, and congratulations were 
exchanged. Doctor Heacock ascended to the pulpit, accompanied by the Rev. 
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clergymen, the Rev. Messrs. McLean, Cook, Bogue, Ward, Dick, Robie, Marshall, 
S. M. Clarke, Kendall, Peabody and Stuart, were seated in* chairs in the space 
between the pulpit and the pews. ' ». ^ x 

The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev. Erskine N. White, of the 
Westminster Church. The Rev. Mr. Barnes, of the Ninth Street Baptist Church, 
followed with reading of Scripture, the selections being the 121st, 128th and 133d 
Psalms, as follows : 

PSALM CXXI. 

1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 

5 The Lord is thy keeper ; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : he shall preserve thy soul. 

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even 
for evermore. 

PSALM CXXVIII. 
1 Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. 
2, For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well 
with thee. 

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house ; thy children like olive 
plants round about thy table. 

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 

5 The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion ; and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the 
days of thy life. 

6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel. 

* 

PSALM CXXXIII. 

1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. 

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's 
beard ; that went down to the skirts of his garments. 

3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion ; for 
there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. 

The following hymn, written by Anson G. Chester, was then read by the Rev. 
Doctor Chester, and sung by a choir of Sabbath-School children in the organ- 
loft — the chorus being sustained by the children in the body of the house, and the 
word "welcome" being echoed and re-echoed by singers stationed in different parts 
of the church : 

SHEPHERD, WELCOME HOME. 

Back from the margin of the mighty main 
The shepherd comes to lead his flock again — 
And while the sheep, delighted, hear his voice, 
Shall not the little, loving lambs rejoice? 

Back from the golden country, 

Back from the ocean foam, 
Back to the lambs that love thee — 
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The streams were chill, the fields no longer fair, 
Without thy love, thy guidance and thy care ! 
God watched thy journey from a distant shore, 
And brings thee to the fold and flock once more. 

Back from the lordly mountain, 

Back from the ocean foam, 
Back from the golden country — 
Shepherd, welcome home ! 

O, strength of Jacob ! Israel's rest and rock ! 
Defend, alike, the shepherd and the flock; 
And grant us all the guidance of Thy hand 
To greener pastures in the better land. 

Back from the golden country, 

Back from the ocean foam. 
Back to the lambs that love thee — 
Shepherd, welcome home ! 

The exquisite music to which the hymn was sung was composed by Mr. J. W. 
Bixby, the chorister of the Church. Here we again quote from the Express: 

" During the closing strains, a dear little girlish figure advanced, with the sweet 
composure of innocence, to the pulpit and up the steps, holding a large basket of 
beautiful flowers, which she timidly proffered to the loved pastor, while she joiifed 
in the words, 

1 Back to the lambs that love thee — 
Shepherd, welcome home !' 

" Bessie Childs was the name given us as that of the little creature thus honoring 
the man whose declared mission is to learn from these little ones the way he must 
point out to their elders." 

Mr. Andrew Parker, one of the elders of the Church, then delivered the following 
address of welcome : 

MR. PARKER'S ADDRESS. 
Honored and Beloved Pastor : 

If your reception by us, to-night, be somewhat formal, we beg you to believe it 
is not a mere formality, but that we desire thus to give dignity and emphasis to a 
united expression of our love for you and our joy at your safe return. 

During the long months of your absence (they have been long to us), we have 
hailed with eager interest every line and every word that brought us intelligence of 
your well-being and of the measure of success God was giving to your labors in 
the far Occident. Though separated in the body, we have followed you in spirit 
withersoever you went. If God had been pleased to open your eyes as He did of 
old, those of the Prophet's servant, to see things invisible, you might have beheld 
at your Sabbath ministrations, a duplicate congregation of familiar and loving 
faces, waiting upon your words as you spoke of the things pertaining to our 
Redeemer's kingdom. We have followed you, this invisible congregation, up the 
heights of the Yo Semite, away to the Geysers, along the track of the railroad, 
through the territory of the modern Sultan of the Latter Day Saints, to the truly 
saintly presence of that venerable servant of God awaiting in a ripe old age the 
Master's call to go up higher — ever invoking for you the care of God's good Provi- 



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dence and His benediction upon your work, looking and hoping for your reunion, 
which we so happily hail to-night, with those who for a quarter of a century have 
learned to love you so well. 

May I add that, willingly as we consented to your temporary absence, it was not 
without some secret misgivings that the call for tried and true men to stand up for 
Jesus before the mixed and rapidly growing population of this forming empire of 
the west might seem to you so imperative, if the way should be providentially 
opened, as to lead you to accept a permanent place at the western front. It was, 
therefore, with a shade of malicious satisfaction that we learned how chilling were 
the breezes that came up from the Pacific, past the Golden Gate. As we trust they 
did you no permanent hurt, we assure you they were very sedative and pacific to 
our apprehensions. 

Nobly as your pulpit has been filled during your absence, we shall hail with glad- 
ness your familiar presence there and your words of instruction, of warning, of 
counsel, out of the Book of Life. We have missed you sorely from your pastoral 
work ; the dying have hoped, if it might be the Divine will, to see you f>nce before 
their departure ; the bereaved and mourning have yearned for your presence with 
messages of comfort and hope. Those appointed to die still anxiously await your 
arrival, that they may meet you again before they go hence. In the congregation, 
in the Sabbath School and in our homes, we have longed for your return to us. 

Joyfully and thankfully, therefore, with heart and voice and hand, we bid you a 
glad and affectionate welcome to your parish, to our hearts and our homes, and to 
your own household, and we pledge you a more earnest support and co-operation 
in the work our common Lord may appoint us. May His blessings and help ever 
be with you and with us, that we may each, at his allotted post of duty, as His 
faithful and valiant soldiers, serve Him in the final conflict that shall usher in the 
already dawning glory of His coming kingdom upon earth ! 

The hymn commencing "All hail the power of Jesus' name," read by the Rev. 
Henry Ward, of the East Presbyterian Church, was then sung by the congregation, 
to the tune of Coronation, after which the Rev. Walter Clarke, D. D. , welcomed 
Dr. Heacock, on the part of the clergy, in the address which follows : 

DR. CLARKE'S ADDRESS. 

It has been assigned to me, dear brother, to give you, on behalf of your clerical 
associates in this city, congratulation for your safe return, and welcome to your old 
associations and walks. When you left us three months ago, in a way so little 
expected, we sent after you two very different styles of thought. We were glad, 
for your sake, and that of our brethren on the Pacific coast, that you were on your 
way to minister to them. But what if some evil should befall you — from accident, 
exposure, the change of habit, or the severities of the untried climate ? What if 
we should never see you again, or see you enfeebled and unequal to your former 
self? Above all, what if those sharp-witted and much appreciating people, lying 
in wait for good ministers, there at the gates of the West, should find out, what we 
have long understood, that in your case, however much the candle may cost, the 
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of entreaty, buckled with gold, and say to Lafayette Street, get yourselves a minister 
as we have done ! We knew that Buffalo bore you ; we knew that you did not 
bore Buffalo ; we had seen again and again your willing love for your people ; we 
had witnessed, to our satisfaction, their willing endurance of you, and we had 
comforted ourselves with the conclusion that no divorce could separate parties so 
equally yoked, till, in premature dotage, you should accept a call to Indiana. But 
had not San Francisco a kind of bait that had caught not Eells only, but Wads- 
worth, and Scudder, and Stone ? And, if Boston and Philadelphia had been com- 
pelled to contribute their brightest stars to the constellation that lights the entrance 
to the Golden Gate, might not Buffalo have cause of alarm in turn ? It is true 
that when any of your people inquired if we had fears looking in that direction, 
we fanned our courage to a momentary blaze of assurance, and answered, that Dr. 
Heacock knew his people, himself and his native city too well to accept a weaker 
call than that which drew Abraham to the suburbs of Sodom. We have consorted 
very much with you in our thoughts, while you have been away in that distant field 
— have felWyour midday heats, your evening chills, your scruples at the well-loaded 
tables ; your misgivings at the seasoned and seductive dishes, the relish with which 
you tasted the forbidden cake, the regret with which you vexed the ensuing night 
with your undigested repentance, your desire to be useful, your homesickness, your 
patience in sowing the seed of truth, your joy in gathering the first fruits of har- 
vest, your solicitude for the dear family, your concern for the precious flock on this 
side of the mountains. We can never tell you, and yet, to know the place you 
have in our hearts, you need to be told the anguish we felt, three weeks ago to- 
night, when a stray rumor reached us of your detention by sudden and serious 
sickness. For hours I could see nothing and think of nothing but Heacock fallen, 
Heacock unconscious, Heacock gone. No epitaph could more emphatically express 
the sorrow or declare the esteem of brethren, than a record of what we felt during 
that little space of uncertainty and alarm. But, my brother, you have escaped all 
the disasters we feared — the call to San Francisco, the call to Salt Lake City, the 
crash of cars, the perils of climate, and, at sight of you to-night, we exchange all 
our forebodings for hearty congratulation and a loving and grateful welcome. 

Shall we give you a fraternal hint ? Just one, before we sit down ? In our 
respective pulpits, we are trying to outdo all our former achievements in the way 
of preaching the Gospel of Christ. And it is our purpose, if possible, to improve 
on our presejit performances, as the winter wears on. We do not say this to alarm 
you, for we long ago found reason to conclude that you have nothing to fear from 
your clerical neighbors of one sect or another. But news has not unfrequently 
come to us during the months of your absence, that from Sabbath to Sabbath, your 
people were taught in a way to create, by its excellence, great relish for good ser- 
mons. In other words, that he who was for a time filling your place, was at the same 
time excavating a place for you to fill, and that it might require bigger sermons to 
sate the spiritual appetites of the good people of Lafayette Street, than those which 
so easily surfeited the requirements of the Howard Church in San Francisco. 

To your new work then — to its increasing demands, to the joy that shall come of 
its fruitage, to your spacious former place in our sympathies and affections, and to 
those Christian interests which summon us to co-operation and a common aim, we 
give you to-night earnest, united and grateful welcome. 



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The Rev. Alexander McLean, of Calvary Church, read the familiar hymn, " Blest 
be the tie that binds," which those present joined in singing. After which, the fol- 
lowing poem, written by Anson G. Chester, was read by its author : 

POEM OF WELCOME. 

" He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with 
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." — Ps. cxxvi. 6. 

" Bearing the precious seed, go forth and weep ! " 

Such to his servant was the Lord's command, 
And he, obedient, took the seed and went 

And wept and labored in a distant land. 
His loving ones the Master ever keeps, 

His faithful ones the Master never leaves — 
So he who went in heaviness and tears 

Returns in joy, for lo ! he brings his sheaves. 

We hail the hero who, in triumph comes 

From reddened fields, where war's hot work was done — 
We wreathe his conquering sword with fairest flowers, 

And shout the victory that his valor won ; 
How should we, then, his nobler advent hail, 

How should we twine his spear and deck his sword, 
Who comes, with triumph shining in his face, , 

Fresh from the endless battle of the Lord ! 

Thrice welcome, friend and pastor, to thy flock ; 

Thy tranquil home, with all its peace and rest — ■ 
To those who, there, have longed for thy return, 

Who love thee most because they know thee best ; 
To duties sweetened by a ready will, 

And cheered by all a perfect trust imparts ;' 
To old familiar burdens and rewards ; 

To smiling hearth-stones and to happy hearts. 

All thanks to Him who bade His servant go 

And cast the precious seed in yonder soil, 
And brings him to his loving flock, to-night, 

Rich in the golden fruitage of his toil. 
O, Gracious Father! give him length of days, 

Thy choicest blessings on his pathway shed, 
And when, at last, his earthly work is done, 

Then place the crown of glory on his head ! 

Two verses of the hymn commencing, " 'Mid scenes of confusion and creature 
complaints," read by the Rev. B. D. Marshall, of the Cedar Street Baptist Church, 
were sung to the immortal air of " Sweet Home," when Doctor Heacock addressed 
the assembled multitude as follows : , 

DOCTOR HEACOCK'S RESPONSE. 
My Very Dear Friends and Brethren : 

My head is swimming yet with the rush and plunge of the railway train, on which, 
for so many days, I have been coming home to you again. I expected to have 
to-night a steady heart, if not a steady head, but the tide of this grateful welcome, 
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in the brilliancy of wit, murmuring in the sweet cadence of verse and song, makes 
my heart as dizzy as my head ; and yet I want to return all that a heart can return 
for such a beautiful and earnest welcome as this. Said a friend, as I came into the 
pulpit, " How happy such a welcome, since you know it is sincere." My dear 
friends, its sincerity is its sweetest element. I have reason to believe that the hearts 
looking out of these eyes are those of long-known and long-tried friends. I have 
thought many times, when looking forward to this hour of welcome, the meeting 
with my family — bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh — the greetings of this assem- 
bly, how much like this reunion will be the blessed reunions of Heaven. There 
will be the company of dear brethren, faithful and beloved in the ministry of the 
Word — brethren of a common faith in Christ's cause and kingdom. There will be 
the faces of old men with gray hair, and the beautiful faces of saintly women — the 
true Madonnas of our faith, such as walked with Christ through His sorrows and 
tasted also the sweetness of sanctified life. Then there will be the forms of dear 
little children, like the one who brought me this basket of flowers ; and the streets 
of that golden city shall be full of the voices of children, like the dear little iambs 
of the flock who have welcomed me back to-night. 

There are hearts here which would beat with a quicker pulse at the mention of 
the names of those who warmly greeted me in the far-off places where I have been 
tarrying. 

I feel, as I look into these familiar faces, that a more fitting response should be 
made to your congratulations ; but I shall have other opportunities of speaking to 
you and of discussing those great interests that have passed before my mind in this 
brief sojourn on the Pacific coast. As I now look upon you, the memory of your 
griefs and the joy of your rejoicings recur to me. I have, indeed, thought of you 
often, and the invisible congregation to which allusion has been made was not, at 
any time, distant to me. We never worshiped God without thinking of the hymn 
which was rolling its full diapason far onward toward the Tacific coast ; for your 
Sabbath came before ours. 

But I must not detain you longer. I stretch out my hands to you all — a hand to 
each of you — and in each hand I hold my heart as I offer it in the glad and grateful 
greeting of such an hour as this. God bless you ; God make me more worthy of 
the love you bear to me, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

At the conclusion of the address, the Rev. H. H. Peabody, of the Washington 
Street Baptist Church, made the closing prayer. 

The doxology, in long metre, " Praise God from whom all blessings flow," was 
sung by the entire congregation, after which the benediction was pronounced by 
Doctor Heacock. 

The returned pastor then received the hearty personal congratulations of his 
people, and others, after which he retired to his home. 



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A MEMORABLE WELCOME, 

GIVEN TO THE PASTOR AT THE LAFAYETTE STREET CHURCH, 
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETURN FROM HIS LONG ABSENCE 
ABROAD, JUNE 12, 1870. 



The welcome to Rev. Dr. Heacock, at Lafayette Street Church, last evening, was 
one of the most remarkable, in all respects, ever witnessed in this city. And this, 
not so much in formal speech or by well regulated programme, as in the deep feeling 
and love that found expression from all hearts. There could be no mistaking the 
fact, that Dr. Heacock was welcomed back, after a long absence in foreign lands, 
as one very dear, as pastor, counselor and friend. 

At an early hour the church was crowded to its utmost capacity by the congrega- 
tion of the church and friends outside of it ; and those who had had no previous 
opportunity to witness the scene which the interior of the Church presented, must 
have been fairly bewildered ; for such a profusion of flowers, in such varied, sig- 
nificant and elegant devices, had never, we think, been seen in Buffalo before. 

The pulpit was fairly enshrouded with rosebuds, carnations, calla lilies, while the 
communion-table in front of it was completely surrounded by calla lilies, and inside 
of these were cups, plats and pots filled to overflowing with cut and growing flowers. 
At either side of the table stood a tall vase containing cut flowers, and in the back 
ground was a mass of ferns, from the center of which arose a monster pyramid of 
choice flowers. In front of the table, on a stand, rested a rustic basket filled with 
rare flowers, while on a stand at either side of the table were French straw baskets 
of unique design filled with flowers of bright colors. Receptacles at the front 
corners of the pulpit contained plants, some of which were in blossom, and trailing 
vines graced the sides of the pulpit. At either side of the pulpit, near the foot of 
the stairs, were terra-cotta vases containing plants in blossom, and plants and flowers 
and vines were otherwise distributed with a view to rendering the artistic effect as 
brilliant and beautiful as possible. 

In the arched space in the rear of the pulpit appeared, woven in evergreens, 
the word 

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Above this, and dropping from a festoon of evergreens which was caught up with 
a bouquet of flowers, depended an exquisite floral harp. On either side of this arch 
and over the doors appeared evergreen shields. In the center of one was a floral 
anchor, while the other was graced with a crown of flowers. 

It would almost seem that this great floral display would suffice, but this was not 
all, for at the south end of the church, in front of the organ-loft, appeared, woven 
in evergreens, the words : 

THE LORD HATH KEPT THEE. 

This motto was set in a frame of evergreens, in the center of which was a bouquet 
of flowers. 

At regular intervals, on the walls and around the front of the gallery railing, 
were placed large white shields, nineteen in all, and representing the nineteen 
months' absence of the pastor. These were trimmed with evergreens, and in the 
center of each was a bouquet of flowers. Indeed, to enter fully into the details of 
the floral decorations of the church would be to devote a great deal of space to it, 
and so we content ourselves with touching upon the more salient points of a remark- 
able floral display, and one which as elegantly expressed a hearty welcome as any 
that words could give. 

THE EXERCISES. 

Immediately before the opening of the exercises Mr. John Otto announced to the 
congregation that, when they heard the first sound of the organ, they should rise 
and remain standing until Dr. Heacock should have passed to the pulpit. 

The organ, which was in charge of Mr. E. L. Baker, soon gave the signal, and 
as Dr. Heacock and family passed up the west aisle they were received with 
tremendous applause. 

Awaiting Dr. Heacock in the pulpit were Rev. Dr. Lord, Rev. Dr. Chester, Rev. 
Dr. Hotchkiss, Rev. Dr. McClure, Henry Childs, Esq., and John Otto, Esq., with 
all of whom Dr. Heacock shook hands. Dr. Heacock's two sons occupied seats in 
one of the front pews. 

After the introductory on the organ, Mr. Otto, who acted as master of ceremo- 
nies, stepped forward and in a few appropriate remarks formally announced the 
return of the pastor of the Church. The following hymn, composed for the occa- 
sion by Mr. Bixby, we suspect, was beautifully rendered by some twenty young 
ladies, members of the Sabbath School and Bible Class, Mr. Bixby leading the 
congregation in the chorus : 

HYMN OF WELCOME. 

Welcome home, welcome home, from a foreign shore, 
Our pastor dear again we meet, and clasp his hand once more. 
Home again, with loved ones near, the ocean dangers past, 
The Father's hand hath safely led, and brought him home at last. 
Chorus — Welcome home, welcome home, from a foreign shore, 

Our pastor dear again we meet, and clasp his hand once more. 

Welcome home, welcome home, to these courts again ; 
Within these walls may love abound, and peace a guest remain. 
Here we passed the parting hour, and here again we meet, 
And u Mizpah " was our constant prayer around the mercy-seat. 
Chorus — Welcome home, welcome home, to these courts again. 

Within these walls may love abound, and peace a guest remain. 



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Welcome home, welcome home : gladly now we raise 
To God, for all his watchful care, our thankful songs of praise. 
Home again, with health renewed, once more the flock to guide, 
Grant, heavenly Shepherd, still Thy grace, and with us all abide. 
Chorus — Welcome home, welcome home: gladly now we raise 

To God, for all His watchful care, our thankful songs of praise. 

Henry Childs, Esq., President of the Board of Trustees, next stepped forward, 
and addressing Dr. Heacock, who stood at the opposite side of the pulpit, spoke 
as follows : 

ADDRESS OF HENRY CHILDS, ESQ. 

Beloved Pastor : 

It is made my pleasant duty at this time, on behalf of the Church and Society of 
which you are the pastor, to say a word of welcome on your return to us. 

You have been absent from us nearly twenty-one months, and it is no exaggera- 
tion to say that we have followed you, and your dear family, with constant and 
anxious interest during all your wanderings. Constant, because it is impossible, for 
a day even, to forget one who, for more than a quarter of a century, has watched 
over the interests of this people with such tender and loving regard. Anxious, 
from an intense desire that the freedom from parochial duties, change of climate, 
and the inspirations of foreign travel might be blessed to your complete restoration 
to health. 

It has been your privilege, during your absence, to visit places and view objects 
of rare interest. A trip to Great Britain and Europe, now-a-days, has become so 
common as to be almost destitute of novelty. 

Other countries than these, and of more renown in sacred and profane history, 
have passed under your observation. Nothing could afford you greater enjoyment, 
or inspire your mind with more enthusiasm, than a visit to those places where the 
events transpired of which you have studied and preached. 

We can imagine the joy you experienced in standing on Mars Hill, where the 
Apostle to the Gentiles preached with so much fervency and power, and what 
thoughts possessed your mind as your eyes gazed upon the " Eternal City ! " 

How you hastened over into Egypt, a country made forever renowned by the 
mighty miracles and wonderful doings of Jehovah ! 

You were carried back almost to the creation by your visit to Damascus, " Pearl 
of the East," which has retained its name and beauty for more than four thousand 
years, and is probably the oldest city of the world. 

But none of these places can compare in interest or awaken such thoughts in 
your mind as the sight of Jerusalem and the Holy Land — the birth-place of Chris- 
tianity and its Divine Author ! Here the Saviour of men taught that great doctrine 
of love to God and love to man, which has been the delight of your ministry and 
the special theme of your teaching. Here He suffered crucifixion and death, here 
He triumphed over the grave by His resurrection ; and from this hallowed place 
where your feet have stood He ascended from earth to heaven. 

But it was not a selfish object which induced you to travel over these countries 
and enrich your mind alone by the visit. You will experience no less enjoyment 
in communicating the information to others which you have gathered, as opportunity 
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During your absence your pulpit has been supplied, most ably and acceptably, by 
Mr. Nason, whose study it has been to develop and foster every interest' dear to 
your heart and Church. He has proved himself a faithful minister of Jesus Christ 
in word and doctrine, and from the rich treasury of his learning has spoken to us 
of the " flowers of the field," of the uses and delights of music and sacred song m 
the sanctuary, of the Christian virtue of temperance ; has given wise counsel and 
judicious instruction to the children, the young men and maidens ; has endeared 
himself, by sympathy and Christian kindness, to the sick and the dying, and those 
who have been called to sorrow and mourning ; and, through the abundant good- 
ness and mercy of our Heavenly Father, has been permitted to gather into the fold 
of the Church a large number of the dear youth from our families — a harvest that 
has been garnered from the precious seed sown during your ministry. 

The Trustees have attended to the " things temporal" of the Church and Society 
as well, perhaps, as could be expected. Paying due regard to that vigorous organ- 
ization, the "Cordon of Temperance," they have introduced "Niagara water" into 
the church building. The " Ladies' Association " have renovated the church and 
supplied new carpets, upholstery and furniture, and out of sympathy for the advanc- 
ing age and failing sight of many of us, have set above us these lights which shine 
down upon us to-night in such brightness and beauty. 

" Things spiritual " have suffered no neglect from your absence, though its mem- 
bers are greatly diminished from various causes. Bristol, who for so many years 
has been your right-hand man and " strong staff," has joined himself to an " idol" 
and taken himself away. 

During the comparatively short period of your absence changes have occurred in 
our city. Death has been busily at work and removed many of your friends and 
acquaintances. He who has been honored with the highest office which our country 
can bestow, your former associate as Trustee of the Grosvenor Library, who, at 
your departure from among us, walked our streets in perfect health and manly 
strength, has been suddenly and unexpectedly called away. 

Two of our most distinguished jurists, who have honored the Bench by purity of 
life, uprightness and integrity of character, and eminent fitness by learning and 
judgment, are with us no more. 

Our city mourns the loss of several of our most useful, generous and distinguished 
citizens, well known and honored by us all. ' 

Coming down to your own Church and people, to whom has been measured out 
their full share of sorrow and affliction, we mourn the loss of Parker, who was 
quickened into a religious life through your instrumentality ; a capable and faithful 
officer of our Church, whose privilege it was to stand in the place I now occupy, and 
speak words of sincere and hearty welcome on your return from the Pacific coast 
some five years ago ; Barker, beloved and honored by all who knew him for his 
warm heart and fervent piety ; Kibbe, in the dew and beauty of his youth ; Mrs. 
Knight and Mrs. Whitney, severing domestic ties which leave bleeding hearts, and 
many others which time fails me to mention here. 

These all, whom you and all of us who kne\y, them will ever remember with 
affectionate and tender interest, have been called during your absence from this life 
of sorrow and trial to the rewards of the just in heaven. 

But, dear pastor, I am occupying the time of others who are here to express their 
joy for the opportunity afforded of meeting you again. All the members of your 



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parish rejoice that you return to us with health restored, and earnestly desire again 
to hear your voice in the sanctuary and meet you at their homes. 

The retirement of Dr. Lord from the ministry, since you left us, brings you to the 
front. The young, and inexperienced minister of thirty years ago, who entered upon 
his work with fear and trembling, is to-day the veteran preacher of our denom- 
ination in this city. We pray that God will spare your precious life and permit you 
to labor in His vineyard, and encourage your heart as He has in days that are past, 
by the abundant bestowal of His grace and loving kindness, until, at a good old 
age and full of years, having passed through the discipline appointed for you in 
this life, He shall honor you in the life immortal by a crown of glory that fadeth 
not away. 

Mr. Childs having concluded his remarks, Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D., read, with 
fine expression, the following 

POEM. 

BY MISS MARY A. RIPLEY. 
I. 

Ah ! fairly falls the morning light 

Upon the crowded foreign bay ; 

The wanderer, so long away, 
Sits wishing for the tardy night ; 

For then the lazy sails shall fill, 
And all the bounding waves shall rise, 
And waft him toward those western skies 

Where loving hearts await him still. 

And will they watch to see me come ? 

And will they greet me in my place? 

And shall I see in every face 
The love that is the welcome home ? 

Forgot are Orient isles and seas, 

The buried towers of elder lands, 

The ancient toil of moldered hands, 
The growths of slow-paced centuries. 

Forgot is all the wondrous art 

That glorifies Rome's marble dust; 

A younger city holds in trust 
That which shall glad the lonely heart. 

For there are friendships tried and true, 
The warm hands waiting for his clasp, 
The good his own grand strength shall grasp, 

The love in which his manhood grew. 

II. 

Sweet Summer sits in maiden state, 

On grassy meadow, dancing wave ; 

Her soft touch clothes the lonely grave, 
And stirs the dreamy flowers that wait. 

The trees put on their fresh attire, 

The hills invite the weary flock, 

The green moss creeps about the rack, 
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O, roses cluster round his door, 

Whose swift feet haste from o'er the sea ; 

Seal up your fragrance till he be 
Within the home he loved before. 

O, little birds that sing your song 
Among the happy garden bowers, 
Make vocal all these joyful hours; 

He comes, shall never do you wrong. 

Whose goodness shelters bird, or flower, 
Or fallen man, or helpless child ; 
Whose gracious nature, unbeguiled, 

Sheds fragrance on each passing hour. 

Who, with a generous, kindly hand, 
Shall scatter all his good abroad ; 
A chosen shepherd sent by God, 

Whose royal soul was nobly planned. 

III. 

The organ strains are wondrous sweet, 
And sweet the chime of silver bells ; 
The tide of gladness grows and swells, 

And breaks in music at his feet.. 

He stands once more within the aisle, 
He knows not if to laugh or weep ; 
And from their slumber long and deep 

A thousand memories wake and smile. 

He sees old faces near him now, 
And hears familiar words again ; 
But who shall know the sacred pain 

Whose longing sits upon his brow ? 

For some are gone he loved to greet, 
Beneath the gentle summer rain ; 
They lie with quiet heart and brain, 

Whom his quick faith goes forth to meet. 

But he will shut the grief away, 
And take the broken words we bring, 
And all the welcome that we fling 

Before him on this festal day. 

Our grateful songs in praise ascend, 
No heart but keeps this happy time, 
No bells but ring the happy chime, 

O, welcome ! welcome ! Pastor, Friend ! 



Rev. John C. Lord next delivered the following address in behalf of the clergy. 
REV. JOHN C. LORD'S ADDRESS. 

My Dear Brother : 

I suppose I have been selected to represent my brethren in the ministry 
because I am most largely acquainted with the past ; because I knew you from 
your childhood. You was born here, and I was here at an early day — about 
fifty years ago. I remember your boyhood. You were a roguish boy and diffi- 
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of faith, and after that, my dear friend, I have known nothing of you but to admire. 
I remember your promising youth ; I remember you in the College and Sabbath 
School, and as a member of my congregation. I remember that your father was for 
many years a member of my congregation in its early history, so I welcome, first 
for myself, second for our brethren ; and we welcome you back gladly, because we 
know your large and generous heart. We have had your aid in counsel and in 
friendship, and in circumstances of difficulty, and we have always found you a sure 
and fast friend ; not a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, but one inter- 
ested in his brethren and friends. So we cannot but welcome you back, because 
you have peculiar gifts which some of us want. You have a hold upon the commu- 
nity here — not your own Church in particular, but of the Presbyterian Church and 
all Churches, for you have a large and catholic heart. Now, it is most difficult for 
most clergymen to come in contact with those men who praise not God. They are 
a class of men difficult to meet ; they are a class of rough riders ; but, my dear 
brother, you have a gift of riding with the roughest without losing your kindness, 
It is a rare gift, too. There are times when your presence is necessary for a fair 
representation of the Church. I say you have that gift, and all this congregation 
and community recognize it. You are now to represent the clergy on public occa- 
sions in many instances. No man can fill your place, so we cannot very well fill 
your place, and we rejoice in receiving you back again. And for another reason 
we rejoice to see you back again. We are a little doubtful of the influence of for- 
eign travel and foreign associations. I speak for myself particularly, but I think 
my brethren have made the same observation, that this great rush of Americans 
to the continent of Europe brings no new graces to anybody. I think on the 
whole it is demoralizing ; the Sabbath is less regarded, and there is a laxity, espe- 
cially in Germany, which is apt to affect the finest men. Perhaps I am mistaken. 
I am very much prejudiced against this rush of American people from their own 
country, these grand savannahs, these everlasting mountains and perpetual hills, 
things that are not to be found there and have no comparison there. A friend of 
mine was going to London in a few weeks, and had to engage passage a month 
in advance. The vessels were all loaded, I suppose French ships, too, with the 
death's head on them. He had to leave his family associations days before he 
intended starting, because otherwise he could not go. And now, my dear brother, 
we do not think you were likely to be demoralized in Germany ; but we do not be- 
lieve you were ever improved there. We think our American modes and thoughts far 
superior to those of antiquated Churches. As Mr. Childs has said, your heart may 
have become touched by becoming familiar with sacred places, but I cannot think 
any man can be filled with greater faith and ardor. On the whole, I think that 
our Americans come back neither improved in manners, morals, nor education. 
[Laughter.] 

I can tell more about some cities in Europe that have been visited by our coun- 
trymen than they have brought back with them. So you see I am prejudiced, and 
I think our whole interests are against this feverish rush to Europe, with this vast 
expenditure of money. However, it is not likely that anyone will mind what 1 say, 
but I like to bear my testimony, and I do protest against our countrymen spending 
the money of this country, and spending their time there, and taking their children 
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systems of education, especially the French system of education. The French 
system of education is admirable — where young girls are shut up as though they 
were not to be trusted out of sight — out of anyone's sight before they are married — 
are watched as the ancient duennas used to watch the Spanish maidens, but we do 
not suppose you have been hurt. I would be willing you should go to the Fiji Islands 
if you would come back with your health. We hope the cannibals would not be 
attracted by your nice person. But we want you to have your health, even if you 
go to the North Pole. 

We rejoice that you are back from those influences in Germany which do not, to 
say the least, spiritualize the people. I am sorry to say, many do not come back 
as pious and spiritual-minded, as earnest as they were. So then we receive you 
gladly, because we like to have you under the shelter of our wings here to see that 
you are kept straight. [Laughter.] 

I must not take up too much of your time, my dear brother ; the whole commu- 
nity welcome you. You are a favorite in this community and always have been. 
You have natural eloquence which attracts the community. You can speak on 
political subjects, which it is not always safe for ministers to do, unless they have 
your gift. You can make a fine impression whenever you wish, for you have the 
natural gift of popular eloquence, as your father had before you. I often think of 
your father when I hear you speak. I do not know but that he exceeded you, and 
there were times when he appeared to be inspired. In a ten minutes address I 
don't know that I ever heard a man that could excel him. 

You are now at the head of the Presbyterian ministry in point of age and time, 
and it seems strange to me that I can see my successor here. But, my dear friend 
and brother, I rejoice to see you. I always loved you and always admired you, 
though we have not always agreed on some theological matters ; but we are both 
catholic enough to look over that. I hope God will give you a long life and fill 
your ministry with abundant blessings — with abundant fruits, that the multitudes 
may find this place the house of God, the gates of Paradise. May God add many 
years to your life, and give you, as seals of your ministry, crowns of rejoicing, that 
many may bless God that they sat under your ministry within these sacred walls. 
[Applause.] 

Dr. Heacock then spoke substantially as follows ; 

DR. HEACOCK'S RESPONSE. 
Mr. Chairman, Brethren and Dear Brother : 

And my honored brother who has welcomed me so kindly — I will not say to my 
congregation — for I see faces looking up in this company which are not of those con- 
nected with any particular Church or sect, who are bound together by the ties of 
that greater bond of Christian faith, and associated in different Churches in the 
advancement of one common kingdom. It is rather a congratulation to me 
that among the clergy appointed to welcome me to-night, should be the pastor 
and friend of those whose memory is dearer than all earthly memories. Some of 
the references which he has made to-night, has brought back before me faces and 
forms of dear and sainted ones, around which gather the tenderest love of my 
youth and the strongest affections of my manhood. We came upon the coast, dear 
brethren, on the morning of the Christian Sabbath. We could not hear the 



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bells that were making vocal the towers of a thousand churches, but we knew 
that countless numbers of those who love that dear name by which we are called, 
were rendering praises in our Christian sanctuaries, and making the whole air 
tremulous with the thanksgivings of the Sabbath. If to all, of that ship's com- 
pany it was a pleasure to see the land that they sought, how much more was it to 
me, as a Christian man and a Christian minister, to welcome it, baptized in the 
broad, blessed and cloudless sunlight of the Christian Sabbath. I think that I under- 
stand the value and the privilege of the Christian spirit of America. Expectation, 
we are told, excites in the human mind the largest enthusiasm of humanity, but 
what a field of triumph and of glory yet awaits it in this land of Sabbaths and 
sanctuaries, open Bibles and Christian inspiration ! 

Now, my dear friends, I agree very much with what my very excellent and hon- 
ored friend of the ministry has said about the influence of foreign travel. I hope 
that you will not realize any of those deplorable effects in me which he has indi- 
cated, but still there are some things to qualify that expression in the lands of 
Europe. There are elements of great cheer and encouragement to the Christian 
heart, there, in the reaction of this great Christian land and Christian republic, 
upon the millions of those lands, borne down, and hedged in, as they are, by the 
debris of old institutions that have come down to them, and which is not their fault, 
and for which they are not responsible. 

We must admit the enormous and glorious work which the established Church of 
England — established though it be — has done. The fetters of State privilege are 
upon its limbs ; let us give credit to the great and good, the Christian, the noble, 
in every land — surrounded by difficulties, and hampered by obstacles — that do so 
hinder the advancement of Christianity. But I will not go into that. We shall 
have time to discuss these questions, dear friends, in the leisure of weeks and 
months that are to follow. 

It was a singular felicity, and very agreeable to my feelings indeed, that you 
should have appointed my honored brother to welcome me in behalf of my con- 
gregation and Church, whose kind and generous forethought proposed to your 
consideration, the welcome plan for my leave of absence from among you, steadily 
supporting it with kind words and generous actions. He opened the way for the 
kind relief from twenty-five years of almost continuous labor here. He was the 
last to waive us off as the ship bore us from the docks of New York, and to 
welcome us by his goodly presence last Monday morning, when we did not suppose 
there would be anybody there to welcome us back again. So when we saw crowds 
gathering upon the dock and waving their handkerchiefs, we fell back to the rear. 
But very soon, like a tower of strength, the form of my brother appeared before 
us, and we found that we had friends welcoming us, and we crowded to the front 
to receive their congratulations. He has told you of the privilege which has been 
granted me of visiting the old lands of story and song. As was intimated in the 
beautiful hymn of welcome, I forget turret and tower, minaret and dome — all the 
lands of song and story — as I look to-night in the faces of the dear friends now 
before me. 

You remember the Persian legend, when the Prince was taken prisoner and 
brought before the monarch and condemned to die and his wife to die with 
him ? He pleaded that his life might serve a double office, possibly by stand- 
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The monarch in his absolute power granted the request and spared the lives of 
both. The Prince said, after they had retired from the presence of the King, " Did 
you notice the King, his manner, form, and appearance ? " Said the wife, " No, I 
only saw him who was willing to give his life for mine." So I say to-night, as I 
think of all these privileges of travel, sojourn and rest, recovery from sickness, 
opportunity for observation, the sight of ancient lands, and the many scenes of 
interest — all the outgrowth of your kindness and generosity. I say, my dear friends, 
I forget turret, dome and capitol ; column and shaft sink into oblivion, as I 
look down into the generous faces of those whose hearts beat before me in 
steadfast love, and whose munificent kindness has given me this rest, this re- 
covery, this privilege of travel and observation, for I have received so much of 
such kind expression to-night, that I wish to return some of the same kind, and 
I will simply say for this dear Church and congregation, that their conduct in this 
has been munificent, munificent ! When I was in New York, hurrying away, my 
friends telegraphed to me : " Do not hurry ; stay as long as you like, and at our 
expense." My dear friends, it has been all at your expense, from beginning to 
end. It has been all the gift of your generous and all-abounding love. But I must 
not dwell upon this theme longer. I pass it then, may I not, to recognize with 
sincere gratitude the success of the youthful, energetic and accomplished minister 
who, during the interval of my absence, has done so much to build up and 
strengthen this congregation, which God has crowned with so many tokens of His 
success? Brethren, I heard far across the water of your appreciation of him, 
and I may say that knowing his gifts and graces, his qualities and character, I 
should prize your love less, if you had not loved him as you did. I am proud of 
every testimony of your affection for his most successful and accomplished ministry 
among you. 

And now an allusion has been made to the shadows of change that have passed 
over this dear congregation. Dear friends, the theme is to me in one sense full of 
sorrow and anguish and agony. In another, it is full of joy. How near do we fiot 
stand to that congregation of dear ones — the sainted and glorified forms that have 
passed before us ! " Come, let us join," says Wesley, in one of his beautiful hymns, 
" come, let us join our friends above," and we do join them to-night. Our heart and 
faith and hope pass forward to the blessed and glad company, who have gone up 
from among us, to rejoice with the saints of God in an eternal worship in heaven. 

"Part of the host have crossed the flood, 
A part are crossing now." 

This change has come among you, and when I cross ' again your thresholds and 
see the vacant places in your households, it will be with the deepest sorrow and 
tenderest sympathy ; but let us not feel as though they were separated from us, but 
that they are near to us and to be with us and of us forever — the dear, sacred, 
changeless, loving memories of our households and our hearts, forever ! 

And now, dear friends, I have never had any home but this. I have never had 
any people but this. And you are my all of life and labor and prayer. As I have 
seen you at the distance and thought of your scattered households, journeying onward 
toward the eternal city, I have asked myself how well and faithfully have I accom- 
plished the pledges of my ministry here ? I can only say this, that, if God shall 
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to consecrate the highest energies of my being to Christ Jesus our Lord. And I 
can take the language of that ancient Scripture and say, "Your household shall be 
as my household ; your home as my home ; your hope as my hope, and your God 
as my God, henceforth and forever." Amen. [Applause.] 

Speaking with the strong feeling which characterized Dr. Heacock's remarks, and 
with the familiarity which the occasion justified, he was difficult to report, and the 
most accurate reproduction of his response could convey no adequate idea of his 
eloquence, or the tearful emotion that had possession of his heart. Many in the 
congregation were seen to brush away the tears, and the speaker himself was almost 
overwhelmed. 

The rendering of " Home, Sweet Home," by Mrs. Charles A. Clark, was daintily 
done, and the chorus by the congregation was given with a will. 

An eloquent prayer was then offered by Rev. J. G. K. McClure, acting pastor of 
the Church, after which was sung by the congregation the hymn, " Blest be the tie 
that binds." 

Benediction by the Rev. Dr. Hotchkiss, and a voluntary on the organ by Miss 
Lucy I. Howe, organist of the Church, brought these memorable exercises of welcome 
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[D.] 

OUR CHURCH SABBATH SCHOOL. 



A veil hangs over its organization and early history, almost as dim and obscure as 
the mists of Mirza, which shroud in myth and fable most of human history of primal 
times. 

Resting as it does wholly upon tradition and the uncertainties of personal recol- 
lection, we may say that its origin (if not before the art of writing was known) at 
least antedates authentic history, for no line of records can be found, or was penned, 
through the years 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, and until late in the year 1849. But 
during this period a few points just rise out, here and there, from these mists of 
uncertainty, in the names of persons who acted as Superintendents, while all around 
them darkness reigns supreme. 

The first, the name of Charles E. Clarke, looms up almost as dimly, and quite as 
uncertain, as that of " Sin Mu " in Japanese semi-mythical history, to whom all the 
Mikados trace back the origin of their time-worn and long-enduring dynasty. Mr. 
Clarke's superintendency run through the years 1845 and 1846. The second, the 
name of Joseph W. Backus (who united with the Church Dec. 4, 1846, and elected 
elder in June, 1847, and subsequently a minister of the Gospel), who filled the office 
of Superintendent in 1847 and 1848. The third name is that of Andrew Parker, 
who served in the years 1849 and 1850. And here for a period of about two years 
we rise out of the mists of tradition into the light of true history, in the systematic 
records kept from September, 1849, to the close of the second quarter of 1851, by 
the Secretary of the school, Julius D. Foot, who united with the Church in 1847 by 
letter from Fair Haven, Vermont, was dismissed to Plymouth Church, Syracuse, 
in 1859, and since deceased. I mention these particulars concerning him, for 
I think something more than a passing mention of his name is due one who 
may be justly termed the father of our Sabbath School history, although only two 
years continued. And as this of his, is the first effort made toward keeping any 
record at all, and as being the middle year of the nineteenth century, and as it is 
the only bright point shining out of the enveloping darkness, not only of the four 
preceding, but also of the four succeeding years, to 1855 — for these reasons I much 
desire (and trust I shall be pardoned for so doing) to quote most of the first annual 
report ever made to our school, that of Secretary Foot's, December 29, 1850. 

He says : " A year ago last September (1849) was commenced the first record of 
the attendance of scholars connected with this school, and the number of verses 
each learned, and continued to December 30th. And on January 6th (1850) a 
report was made." " And although the result was not as gratifying as desired, 
sufficient interest was manifested by the scholars to induce the commencement of a 
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" To carry out the plan proposed has cost much more labor and time than was 
anticipated ; yet the labor has been amply repaid in witnessing the increased interest 
on the part of so many of the scholars, in the results, which are this day laid before 
you." [The statistics will be given in their order.] 

"From my observation of the children, I think it safe to say that the increased 
interest manifested by them is a voluntary one on their part, and not the result of 
increased parental effort." 

" Our school, though bearing the name of the Church, and meeting in its place 
of worship, may, with propriety, be considered a Missionary School, and the labor 
here performed Missionary Labor, from the fact that so large a majority of the 
scholars are not connected with the Church or congregation " (40 with, 70 not). 

Mr. Foot thus speaks to the scholars : 

" Dear scholars, while we are gratified at the increased interest manifested in the 
Sabbath School, far greater would be our cause of rejoicing had we reason to believe 
the instruction here given had been instrumental in winning the affections of your 
hearts to the Saviour. 

" Large and precious promises are made to you. Suffer little children ana 7 forbid 
them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. 

" May you, dear scholars, be of that number, that shall make up the society of 
the holy and the blest in eternity." 

He says to the " Dear teachers ! We to-day close the labors of another year in 
this blessed enterprise ! 

" May God forgive us wherein we may have been unfaithful, and water with the 
dews of heaven the seed here sown, that it may bring forth much fruit. 

" The changeable character of the school should be one among many motives to 
impress us with the importance of laboring with each scholar, as though it was the 
last and only opportunity we should ever have, to give, or they to receive, that instruc- 
tion which may prove their salvation. 

" Say not ye, there is yet four months, and then comet h the harvest ? behold, I say 
unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white already for 
the harvest. 

11 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gat hereth fruit unto eternal life. 

" And while it is our duty, as well as our privilege, to labor for the immediate con- 
version of the scholars, if we do not see the immediate results desired, let us not 
become discouraged, but trust in the precious promises of God, that the seed thus 
sown by us shall hereafter yield an abundant harvest, even though the fruit shall 
be gathered by other hands, yet shall both he that soweth and he that reapeth may 
rejoice together? 

" When the harvest shall be gathered, may it be found that Superintendent, 
teachers and scholars of this Sabbath School have all been gathered into our 
Heavenly Father's Garner, and be permitted forever to mingle our praises together 
around His throne !" 

I quote a few words more : 

"All will not probably prize the record as much as the one who has taken so 
much interest in it, as to bestow the labor necessary to its completion ; but allow me 
to say, that L believe that such a record should be kept of every Sabbath School, and 
that the record should be the property of the Church." 



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Notwithstanding this beautiful report, and the excellent spirit of it, and the 
evident wisdom of such advice, we find the record continued only for the two first 
quarters of the next year (185 1), and then a dark cul-de-sac, engulfing all knowledge 
of the workings and condition of the school down to January, 1855. 

The following will be found a statement of the more important facts in regard to 
the school's history, from its origin down through the years (as far as can be obtained) 
to the present time, June, 1876 : ■ 

At the time of the organization of our Church Society, a Sabbath School of the 
old Park Church, under the superintendence of N. B. Palmer (if the tradition can 
be relied on), was in existence, which, being merged into the Lafayette Street Church 
Sabbath School, passed under the care of Charles E. Clarke. 

1845-6 — Charles E. Clarke, Superintendent. 

No report. 

1847-8 — Joseph W. Backus, Superintendent. 
No report. 

1849 — Andrew Parker, Superintendent. 
Julius D. Foot, Secretary. 

Number of scholars registered, 159 ; officers 3, teachers 18=21 ; average attend- 
ance of scholars, 75. Of the 159 on the record, 81 are not connected with families 
of the Church or congregation. Collections, $22. 

1850— Andrew Parker, Superintendent. 
Edward Bristol, Assistant Superintendent. 
Julius D. Foote, Secretary, 

Number of teachers registered, 21 ; two of whom, Mrs. Heacock and Miss 
Pierson (Mrs. L. L. Lewis), are now connected with the school. The number of 
scholars registered, 159 ; of whom the following have since united with the Church. 

Miss Sarah Bettis, March 14, 1853. 

Miss Augusta Kimball, March 14, 1853. 

William J. Lavery, April 20, 1856. 

Miss Emma Folger, August 2, 1850. 

Miss Emma Bruce, April 20, 1856. 

Miss Anna P. B. Foltz, April 20, 1856. 

Miss Mary Kimball, May 4, 185 1. 

Miss Harriet W. Kimball, June 13, 1858. 

Miss Ann McCready, April 2, 1858. 

Miss Emily Phillips, May 6, 1852. 

Miss Mary Phillips, May 6, 1852. 

Miss Ellen Murdock, April 14, 1856. 

Miss Agnes Ovens (Mrs. Derick), May 27, 1866. 

Miss Amia Schermerhorn (Mrs. Root), June 11, 1866. 

Miss Cora L. Spencer (Mrs. Cotter), April 20, 1856. 

Miss Adelaide Stout, April 6, 1862. 

Miss Abby M. Heacock (Mrs. Tillinghast), September 30, 1862. 
Miss Elizabeth A. Gowans (Mrs. Dr. Hopkins), June 21 , 1864. 
William W. Gowans, March 21, 1866. 
Miss Cynthia E. Weed, August 2, 1856. 
Miss Jane Wade, April 2, 1858. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 55 



In all 21 out of 159 ; a not very abundant harvest. There remained connected 
with the school at the end of the year 1850, of- scholars, 11 1 ; average attendance 
through the year, 79. 

1 85 1 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 

George Richardson, Assistant Superintendent. 

Julius D. Foot, Secretary and Librarian. 
Number of teachers on register, 24 ; of whom 4 remain, Mrs. G. W. Heacock, 
Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge, Charles G. Brundige, and Mrs. L. L. Lewis (then Miss 
Pierson). Reports imperfect for the year. 

1852 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. No report. 

1853 — Albert H. Plumb, Superintendent for a part, and 
Benjamin H. Folger, for the rest of the year. No report. 

1854 — Andrew Parker, Superintendent. No report. 

1855 — George R. Kibbe, Superintendent. 

Whole number registered, 207 ; average attendance of officers and teachei's, 29 ; 
average attendance of scholars, 144 ; number of teachers registered, 28 ; of whom 
2 remain, Mrs. Trowbridge and E. A. Shaw. Miss Phoebe Selden, teacher of the 
infant class, 1855. 

1856 — George R. Kibbe, Superintendent. 

R. R. McCready, Assistant Superintendent. 
William L. Doyle, Librarian. 
Average attendance for the year, scholars, 127 ; teachers, 28 ; Miss Dixon, teacher 
of infant class ; collections, $34.33. 

1857 — Officers same as for 1856 (see above). Report not complete, partly esti- 
mated. Average attendance of scholars, 130; average attendance of officers and 
teachers, 30. Miss Josephine Snyder, teacher of infant class. 

1858 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 
R. R. McCready, Secretary. 

Number of teachers registered, 30; number of scholars registered, 255. Of the 
30 teachers Mrs. Trowbridge, Mr. C. G. Brundige and E. A. Shaw are now in the 
school. Reports incomplete. Miss Snyder, teacher of the infant class. 

1859 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 

H. H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
James S. Ladd, Secretary to April, and 
William H. Adams, the balance of the year. 
Mrs. Ingersoll, teacher of the infant class. Report incomplete, but much the 
same as last year. Pastor returned from his European tour, Oct. 26, 1859. 

1860 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 

H. H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
William H. Adams, Secretary. 
Teachers of Bible classes, 12 ; middle department, 24—36. Mrs. Trowbridge took 
charge of the infant class this year, I think, retaining it, with one slight interruption, 
down to the present time, June 1876 ; average attendance, scholars and teachers, 
163. Reports incomplete. 



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1861 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 

H. H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
William H. Adams, Secretary. 
Teachers, 26 ; average attendance of all, 174. Report incomplete. 

1862 — Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 

H. H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 

William H. Adams, Secretary, resigned in July, and A. M. Johnston 
served the year out. 

June 15 th of this year, the Sabbath School met for the last time in the old La- 
fayette Street Church, and on the following Sabbath (22d) at Niagara Square 
Baptist Church ; moving, November 23d, to the basement of the First Church. 
Average attendance of all for the year, 163. Report incomplete. 

1863— Edward Bristol, Superintendent. 
Henry H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
A. M. Johnston, Secretary. 

January 18th, occupied our own room, the chapel of Lafayette Street Church ; 
Edward Bristol resigned the superintendency May 28th, having served six years 
and five months, besides the two years previously, 185 1-2 ; Seth Clark elected to 
fill vacancy, same day ; the Church edifice was dedicated October nth ; A. M. 
Johnston as Secretary resigned October 25th; H.J. Fiske elected to fill vacancy 
October 25th; average attendance of all, 183 ; collections, $113.09. 

1864 — Seth Clark, Superintendent. 

Henry H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 

Harvey J. Fisk, Secretary. 

L. R. Casey, Librarian. 
Number of teachers registered, 49 ; only five of whom are now connected with 
the school : Charles G. Brundige, E. A. Shaw, Mrs. S. B. Guiteau, Mrs. Chichester, 
Mrs. Trowbridge ; 5 officers, 325 scholars, of which about 40 are in the infant 
class ; total, 374 ; 28 united with the Church this year. 

1865— Seth Clark, Superintendent. 

H. H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
Harvey J. Fisk, Secretary. 
Wm. H. Adams, Librarian. 
Whole number of teachers registered, 40 ; whole number of scholars registered, 
470 ; average attendance of the whole, 273 ; contiibutions, $172.72. 

1866 — Seth Clark, Superintendent. 

Henry H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 

John U. Wayland, Secretary. 

Ransom R. Baker, Assistant Secretary. 

Geo. A. Williams, Librarian. 
Number of teachers registered, 54 ; number of classes at the beginning, 42 — at 
the close, 39 ; number of scholars on the register, 371 ; average attendance, 258 ; 
contributions, $169.74. 

1S67 — Seth Clark, Superintendent. 

John U. Wayland, Secretary. 

R. R. Baker, Assistant Secretary. 

Wm. J. Keep, Librarian. 

Elliott Richardson, Assistant Librarian. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 57 



Number of teachers on the register, 55 ; average number of scholars registered, 
395 ; average attendance, 269 ; total collections, $360.80. 

1868 — Seth Clark, Superintendent. 
Ransom R. Baker, Secretary. 
Elliott Richardson, Librarian. 

Number of schoiars registered, 377 ; during the year 188 left and 105 were admit- 
ted ; average attendance, 236 ; number at the close of the year, 310 ; 40 registered 
teachers, 6 of whom are now with the school ; whole collections, $431.35 ; from 
text-books, $29.77 — $461.32. 

1869 — Peter J. Carmichael, Superintendent ; resigned about the close of the 

second quarter, and went to Leavenworth, Kansas. 
W. W. Rowley, elected Assistant Superintendent, served as Superin- 
tendent through the year. 
Ransom R. Baker, Secretary. 
Elliott Richardson, Librarian. 
Total attendance, about 300 ; whole contributions, estimated, $234 ; 6 teachers of 
this year are now with the school. There were 9 Bible classes, with a total of 60 
scholars; middle department, 27 classes — total of 127 scholars; infant class (Mrs. 
Trowbridge), 80 scholars. 29 scholars present every Sabbath ; 34 scholars united 
with the Church this year. 

1870 — George L. Squier, Superintendent. ■ 
Henry H. Hale, Assistant Superintendent. 
Ransom R. Baker, Secretary; , 
William Turner, Assistant Secretary. 

E. A. Shaw, Treasurer. 

J. Albert Bixby, Librarian. 

James Lynd, Assistant Librarian. 
Two Bible classes — E. Bristol, W. W. Rowley, teachers ; both since withdrawn. 
Of the 28 teachers in the middle department, 7 are now connected with the school. 
Infant department, Mrs. Trowbridge and Jas. Trowbridge ; officers, 6 ; teachers and 
scholars Bible department, 91 ; teachers and scholars middle department, 225 ; 
teachers and scholars infant department, 76 — total, 398 ; average attendance of all, 
232 ; contributions, $236.28. 

1871 — George L. Squier, Superintendent. 
Lewis S. Morgan, Assistant Superintendent. 
Ransom R. Baker, Secretary. 

Wm. Turner, Assistant Secretary. 
Of the 36 teachers, 9 now remain ; officers, 7 ; teachers and scholars Bible depart- 
ment, 114; teachers and scholars middle department, 255 ; teachers and scholars 
infant department, 82; whole number registered, 458; average attendance of all, 
236 ; contributions, $344.55. 

1872— George L. Squier, Superintendent. 

Alfred B. Ellsworth, Assistant Superintendent. 
Ransom R. Baker, Secretary. 
William Turner, Assistant Secretary. 



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W. W. Rowley, teacher of union Bible class ; number of scholars on the Bible 
class register, 67 ; number of teachers in the middle department, 32 ; number of 
whom now remain, 11 ; Mrs. Trowbridge, teacher of the infant class; Mrs. C. P. H. 
Nason, assistant teacher ; officers, 6 ; teachers and scholars Bible classes, 1 14 ; teach- 
ers and scholars middle department, 241 ; teachers and scholars infant department, 
95 ; a total on the register, 450 ; average attendance for the school, 267 ; contribu- 
tions whole school, $254.92 ; 9 of the school were married during the year, and 4 
united with the Church. 

1873 — George L. Squier, Superintendent. 

Charles G. Brundige, Assistant Superintendent. 

William Turner, Secretary. 

Albert G. Brown, Assistant Secretary. 

John Otto, Treasurer. 

Jas. Albert- Bixby, Librarian. 
W. W. Rowley, teacher of union Bible class ; Chas. G. Brundige, teacher of the 
adult Bible class ; Mrs. Trowbridge, teacher of infant department ; Mrs. C. P. H. 
Nason, assistant teacher ; Byron H. Wescott, Secretary. Of the 31 teachers in 
all departments, 10 remain. Officers, 7 ; teachers and scholars of Bible department, 
113; teachers and scholars middle department, 230; teachers and scholars infant 
department, 120 ; total on the register, 463 ; the average attendance has been 259 ; 
total contributions, $293.53 ; total passing through the Treasurer's hands, $623.42 ; 
45 were converted during the year. 

1874 — Samuel D. Sikes, Superintendent. 

Charles G. Brundige, Assistant Superintendent. 

William Turner, Secretary. 

John Otto, Treasurer. 

J. A. Bixby, Librarian. 
C G. Brundige, teacher adult Bible class ; W. W. Rowley, teacher union Bible 
class ; Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge, teacher infant class ; Mrs. G. W. Heacock, assistant 
teacher. Of the 30 registered teachers, 15 remain. Officers, 7; teachers and 
scholars of Bible classes, 116; teachers and scholars of middle department, 232 ; 
teachers and scholars of infant department, 126; whole number registered, 481; 
average attendance per Sabbath, 240; whole amount of contributions, $281.11. 
The young people's Bible class has contributed for various benevolent and mis- 
sionary objects, $150. 

1875— George L. Squier, Superintendent. 

Other officers same as last year (see above), though Francis A. Board was chosen 
Secretary. He declined, and William Turner elected in his stead. 

Charles G. Brundige, teacher adult Bible class ; W. W. Rowley, teacher young 
people's Bible class to April 18th ; Levi S. Gates the balance of the year, from May 
16th ; Mrs. Trowbridge and Mrs. Heacock, infant department ; B. H. Wescott, Sec- 
retary ; officers, 7 ; Bible classes and teachers, 105 ; teachers and scholars middle 
department, 239; teachers and scholars infant department, 118; 36 teachers, 426 
scholars, 7 officers — total, 469 ; average attendance per Sabbath, 215 ; contributions 
young people's Bible class, $48.05 ; middle department, $118.28 ; infant department, 
$15.38 — total, $181.71 ; 8 classes disbanded; 1 raised from infant class ; 4 united 
with the Church ; 2 died. 



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1876 — Chas. H. Baker, Superintendent. 
E. J. Plumley, First Assistant. 
Miss Mary A. Ripley, Second Assistant. 

Wm. Turner, Secretary ; resigned on March 1, and his assistant, W. R. 

McNiven, appointed. 
W. F. Sikes, Assistant Secretary. 
J. Albert Bixby, Librarian. 
Arthur Nye, Assistant Librarian. 
Byron H. Wescott, Secretary Primary Department. 
Officers' average attendance, 6. 

Teachers — Primary department, 2 ; adult Bible class, I ; young people's Bible 
class, 1 ; intermediate, 24 — total, 28 ; average attendance, 27. Adult Bible class 
average, 12. Young people's Bible class registered, 81 ; average, 50. Intermediate 
department registered, 165 ; average, 125. Primary department registered, 66 ; 
average, 37. Total average, including visitors, etc., 263. 

The following is a list of all the names of persons who have acted as teachers 
since the organization of the Church, as far as we find any record ; there being 
none for the years 1845-6-7-8 ; none for 1852-3-4 ; none for 1860-1-2. The list 
also gives the years following the one in which the name first appears, during which 
each served (excepting those just mentioned as having no extant record). But it is 
fair to conclude that many acted as teachers (if not all) whose names appear in the 
last year before, and the first year after the blank. For instance, we will take the 
names of Mrs. Trowbridge and Mr. Otto, who are known to have resided in the 
city, whose names we find on the record of 1 850-1 •* again in 1855, and on to 
1859; then again in 1863, onward to 1873 for Mr. Otto, and to 1876 for Mrs. 
Trowbridge. We rightly infer that they held on during these gaps in the school's 
history between 185 1 and 1855, and between 1859 and 1863. And the same may 
be said of all who had classes during the years immediately preceding these breaks 
in history. 

Then we will take another case, that of some, if not all, of those names which 
appear on the record for 1850-1, 1855 and 1863, for the first time, that they might 
have been on the teachers' list for all the years of these blank periods. For 
instance, Mrs. Trowbridge, we understand, was a teacher from the first, carrying 
back the record of her services to the period anterior to authentic history. And 
another instance is that of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hale, whose names first appear 
in 1855 ; but who, I learn from personal conversation, were connected with the 
school as teachers in 1852 (the year they united with the Church), and in case of 
Mr. Hale continuously without break down to 1870 

And these statements are warranted in the cases of many other names. I speak 
of them as being those, concerning whom I am positive. 

I leave blanks, which occur in our records in the years, of all the names, not 
doubting that I might safely fill them up, but I prefer to stand by the records as I 
find them. 

There were undoubtedly many who were connected as teachers in the Sabbath 
School, only during these gaps in its history, and who are not, and cannot be known 
as such at all. These long explanations are made in justice to all parties. 



Partial record of teachers for 1851. 



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Mrs. Trowbridge took charge of the infant class probably in i860 ; though this 
being one of the blank years, yet from what can be found, and from personal 
conversation, this may be stated quite positively. 

The first mention of the infant class is found in 1855, Mrs. Phoebe Selden, one 
of the original members of the Church, for its teacher, with an average of 7 or 8 
scholars ; among them we find the name of Isaac Kibbe. 

The next year, 1856, there were 13 names, and the teacher was Miss Dixon, of 
whom we have no further record. The year 1857, Miss J. Snyder was teacher; 
class numbering 22 on the record. 

1858, Miss J. Snyder, class of 15. 

1859, Mrs. Ingersoll (not a member of the Church) had charge of the class ; 30 
scholars on the register. 

1860, Mrs. Trowbridge, as before said, to 1876, a period of 16 years. 

To notice the teachers of the various Bible classes separately would take up too 
much time and space, hence they will each appear with the middle department 
teachers in the order of time, until we come down to the organization of the present 
young people's and adult Bible classes. 



1850— Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge, i85i,**i855 to 1859,** 1863 to 1876. 
Miss Pierson (now Mrs. L. L. Lewis), 1851,** 1855, 1875-6. 
Miss Mary Bettis, and 185 1. * 
Miss Caroline Lee, and 185 1. 
Miss Elizabeth Stone, and 185 1. 
Miss Maria J. McCready, also 1851,** 1855-6. 
Miss Sarah M. McCready, also 1851,** 1855-6. 
Mrs. James P. Lee, also 1851, ** 1855. 
Miss Minerva Ann Aykroid, also 1851, ** 1855-6. 
Mrs. G. W. Heacock, 1864-5-6, 1871-2, 1875-6. 
Miss Mary McCready, 1851,** 1855 to 1859. 
Miss Jane Radley. Miss Hammond. 

Mrs. Seaman. Miss Thompson. 



The new names which appear for each year show when their names are 
first found on the record ; though some might have commenced pre- 
vious to 1850, others in the blank between 185 1 and 1855, also others 
between 1859 and 1863. The dates following the names of those 
who for the first time appear in any one year, indicate the years fol- 
lowing, during which they were teachers. The stars (**) indicate no 
records, thus : 1851,** 1855, 1859,** 1863. 



Teachers. — Ladies' List. 



1 85 1 — Mrs. Dr. Presbrey. 

'Miss Almira Graves, and** 1855-6. 
Miss Maria Woodworth. 
Miss Cynthia C. Weed. 
Miss Mary E. Kimball, also ** 1855 
Mrs. William M. Snow. 
Miss Woodruff, also** 1855. 



Miss Emma Folger, also ** 1855. 
Miss Charlotte Gowans. 
Miss Mary Ann Bertrand. 
Miss Sarah Parsons. 
Miss Abby Heacock. 
Miss Caroline E. Thayer. 
Mrs. Dr. Presbrey, 1869. 



1852-3-4 — No reports. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. l6l 


1855- 


-Miss Jane McCready, 1856-7-8-9. 






Miss Susan Hoole, 1856-7-8-9,** 1863-4-5. 




Miss Agnes Ovens (Mrs. Spencer), 1856. 




Mrs. H. H. Hale, 1st quarter 1855, also 1852-3-4, 1865-6. 




Miss M. A. Mills. 


Miss Martha Holmes. 




Miss Mary J. Phillips. 


Miss Emily H. Parsons. 




Miss Ellen Parish. 


Miss Sarah Bettis, 1856-7. 




Mrs. Hunt. 


Mrs. Munro. 




Miss Schermerhorn, 1 8 56. 


Miss Mason, 1856-7-8-9. 




Miss Sarah J. Hull, 1856. 


Miss Laing, 1856. 




Miss Woodward, 1856-7-8-9. 


Miss Anna E. Hall, 1856, 1865. 




Miss Phcebe Selden. 




1856- 


-Miss Josephine Snyder, 1857-8-9, ** 1863-4-5. 




Miss Eva Snyder, 1857-8-9,** 1863-4 






Miss Francis A. Van Buren, 1857-8-9 






Miss Dixon, Infant Class. 


Miss Woodward, 1857. 




Miss Nellie Wesley. 


Miss Billings. 




Miss Adelaide Stout, 1857. 


Mrs. Mclntyre. 




Mrs. H. A. Fisk, 1864-5. 




1857- 


-Mrs. J. R. Marvin, 1858-9, ** 1863 to 1867. , 




Miss Cora L. Spencer, 1858. 


Mrs. Julia Price. 




Miss "Williams. 


Miss Ellen Murdock, 1858. 




Miss Abby C. Carew, 1858. 




185S- 


-Mrs. Reynolds, and 1859,** l86 3 to l86 7- 




Mrs. Brundige, and 1859,** 1863-4-5 






Miss Lucy Ann Rumsey, and 1859, ** 


1863-4, 1869 to 1875. 




Miss Harriett Piatt, and 1859. 


Miss Luce, and 1859. 




Miss Grosvenor, and 1859. 


Miss Loth. 


1859- 


-Miss Sudderick, ** 1863-4-5. 


Mrs. Ingersoll, Infant Class. 




Mrs. Olver. 


Mrs. Curtiss. 


1860, 1861, 1862 — No reports. 




1863- 


-Mrs. Sarah B. Guiteau, 1864 to 1876. 


Mrs. Chichester, 1864 to 1876. 




Miss Moore. 


Miss Robinson. 




Miss Rebecca Johnson, 1864 to 1870. 


Miss Carrie Presbrey, 1864 to 1870. 




Miss Nellie Stanbury. 


"Mrs. R. W. Johnson, 1864-5-6-7. 


1S64- 


-Miss Emma Bruce, 1865 to 1873. 


Mrs. A. M. Fiske, 1865-6. 




Mrs. C. H. Baker. 


Miss Sarah J. McVean, 1865-6. 




Mrs. J. C. Dawson. 


Mrs. M. F. Dudley, 1865 to 1875. 




Miss Townsend. 


Miss H. C. Roby, 1865. 




Mrs. French. 




1865- 


-Mrs. Geo. L. Squier, 1866, 1869-70-1, 1873-4. 




Mrs. C. Shaw. 


Mrs. P. L. Wentworth. 




Miss A. W. Johnson. 


Mrs. Mary L. Baker. 




Mrs. Maftel Bruce, 1866 to 1872. 


Miss Mary Chichester, 1866 to 1876. 



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OF THE 


1865- 


—Miss Tovvnsend. 


miss ratty barker, iooo. 




Mrs. M. A. Sears. 


TIT TP O "U 

Mrs. E. b. French. 




Miss baran JJarker, iooo. 




1866- 


-Mrs. Alphreda A. Vaux, 1867 to 1872 


. Mrs. E. A. Shaw, 1867-8. 




Mrs. P. L. Wentworth, 1867. 


Mrs. Seth W. Warren. 




Miss Emily S. Cleghorn. 


Mrs. Charles A. Clark. 




Mrs. Wm. H. Adams, 1871 to 1875. 


Mrs. E. F. French, 1867-8. 




Mrs. L. Rider. 


Mrs. Wm. J. Keep, 1867-8. 


1867- 


-Mrs. E. Comstock, 1868 to 1872, 1875-6. 




Miss Emma L. Hodge, 1868. 


Miss Lizzie Gowans, 1868. 




Mrs. Henry Childs, 1868. 


Mrs. J. A. Wright. 




Mrs. Geo. E. Oatman, 1868. 




I0O0- 


-Miss Emma Wright, i87i-2*-3. 


Miss McQueen. 




Mrs. A. M. Sears. 


Mrs. John Gowans. 




Miss Emily Calhoun, 1869—70. 




1869- 


—Mrs. J. N. Larned| 1870. 


Mrs. L/iinora A. xiaRei, 1070— I. 




Mrs. W. S. Shaw, 1870— 1—2— 3-4. 


Miss Helen M. Horton, 1870 to 1876. 




Mrs. W. W. Rowley, 1870 to 1874. 


Miss'Hattie M. Buell, T870-1-2. 




Mrs. Salisbury. 




I07O— 


-Miss Allie Horton, 1871 to 1876. 


Mrs. F. F. Fargo, 1871 to 1876. 




Mrs. S. Spencer, 1871. 




1871- 


-Miss Ada Kenyon, 1872. 


Miss Belle Shaw, 1872 to 1876. 




Mrs. Merritt. 


Mrs. S. D. Sikes, 1872 to 1876. 




Miss Julia A. Chalmers, 1872, 1874. 


Miss Belle Harvey, 1872 to 1876. 




Miss Mary A. Ripley. 


Miss Carrie Kenyon, 1872. 


1872- 


-Mrs. N. Whitcomb. 


Mrs. S. Sears. 




Miss Clara Oyer, 1873-4. 


Miss Jeannic Buell, 1873 to 1876. 


1873- 


-Mrs. C. P. H. Nason, 1874. 


Mrs. Dr. Miner, 1874-5-6. 




Mrs. Rosenbury. 


Mrs. Wilson. 


1874- 


-Mrs. R. L. Burrows, 1875-6. 


Mrs. E. J. Plumley, 1875-6. 


1875- 


-Miss Lizzie Otto, and 1876. 


Miss Lucy F. Lander, 1876. 




Miss Sarah E. Brown, and 1876. 




1876- 


-Miss Mary E. Pindar. 


Mrs. Macomber. 




Mrs. Lewis H. Brown. 






Teachers. — Gentlemen's List. 


1850- 


-John Otto, 1851,** 1855 to 1859,** 


1863 to 1869, 1870-1-2-3. 




George R. Kibbe, 1851,** 1855-6-7- 


-8-9. 




Selim Sears, 1851, ** 1855-6-7. 


Charles Eels, 1851,** 1855-6. 




Mr. Warner. 


James P. Lee, 1851, ** 1855-6. 




B. P. Leland, 185 1. 


Lucien B. Towsley. 




Mr. Thayer. 





LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



:8 5 i- 



-Charles G. Brundige, 1856-7-8, 9, ** 1863-4-5-6, 1874-5- 
Andrew Parker, 1856-7-8-9,** 1863-4-5-6. 



Thomas Sanford. 
George Richardson. 
Albert H. Plumb. 
John Gowans, 1864 to 1869. 
R. Sears. 



:8 55 - 



1856- 



1857- 

1858- 
1859- 

No 
1863- 
1864- 

1865- 



Mr. Wade. 
William M. Snow. 
Mr. Northrop. 
O. F. Presbrey. 
No record from 185 1 to 1855. 

-Henry H. Hale, 1852 to 1859, ** l86 3 to l8 7°- 
Edwin A. Shaw, 1856-7-8-9, ** 1863 to 1876. 

George W. Phillips. Harvey J. Fisk, 1856, ** 1863. 

E. F. French, 1856-7-8-9. Jos. T. Hoole, 1856-7-8-9, 1865. 

E. J. Chatfield. A. B. Lawrence, 1856. 

Julius Marvin, 1856. Horace Metcalf, 1857. 
Mr. Waters, 1856. 

-Edward Bristol, 1857, 1864 to 1871. 

Samuel D. Sikes, 1857-8-9, ** 1863, 1872-3. 

James Sweet. A. M. Johnston, 1864-5. 

C. H. Baker, 1857, 1864. A. F. Gurnsey. 

C. C. Shaw, 1857. C. S. Sheldon, 1866. 

Mr. Humason, 1857. W. R. Greenleaf, 1865. 

-William B. Olver, 1858-9, ** 1863 to 1869. 



1867- 



J. W. Dorr, 1858-9. 

Mr. Arthur. 

Mr. Hall, 1864-5. 

-Dr. Avery Williams. 
Mr. Rosenburg. 

-William Forsyth, ** 1863-4-5-6. 
James W. Bixby, ** 1863 to 1876. 
Charles E. Johnson, ** 1 863-4-5-* 
reports for 1 860-1-2. 

-Mr. Bell. 

-H. F. Dyer, 1865. 
Dr. T. M. Johnson. 
J. W. Walker. 
O. D. Adams. 

Henry Childs, 1865 to 1871. 
-Seth W. Warren. 
F. N. Jones, 1866-7-8. 
C. S. Sheldon. 

-Alfred B. Ellsworth, 1867 to 1875. 

William J. Keep. 

Charles A. Clark, 1867 to 1871. 
-Peter J. Carmichael, 1868-9. 

Peter Gowans, 1868 to 1870. 



Perez E. Brown, 1858-9, ** 1863-4. 
Geo. W. Harris, 1858. 
James W. Waterman, 1858. 

Eli Mosier. 

Mr. Adsit. 
Park Patterson. 



G. F. Thomas. 

H. C. Moore. 

George L. Squier, 1865 to 1869. 
Mr. Roby. 
Mr. Morison. 



George N. Pierce, 1866-7. 
P. L. Wentworth. 



Horace Briggs. 

James Trowbridge 1867 to 187T. 

F. D. Locke. 

E. Comstock, 1868-9. 

George Oatman, 1868 to 1872. 



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1 868 — William Montgomery. 

1869— W. W. Rowley, 1870 to 1875. 
Anson G. Chester. 

A. M. Johnston, 1870. 



W. S. Shaw, 1 8 70-1-2-3. 
William L. Doyle, 1870 to 1875. 
Mr. Struthers. 



1870 — Louis S. Morgan, 1871-2. 

1871 — No new names. 

1872 — James W. Chatman. 

1873 — Dr. N. Whitcomb. 

1874 — Levi S. Gates, 1875-6. Young People's Bible Class. 

Charles H. Baker. Samuel N. Lawrence, 1857. 

1875 — No new names. 

1876 — Edmund J. Plumley. Erastus W. Ayer. 

Whole number of lady teachers in all departments whose names are on the 
records as found for twenty of these years, is 160, making an average of 8 new 
names per year. Estimating on the basis of this average, we have for the remain- 
ing eleven years, 11 x 8 = 88 more, a total, as estimated thus, of 248. 

Whole number of gentlemen, as per records found, 97. Estimating as above, 152. 
Making, according to this estimate, a total of 400. Whole number actually known, 
257. Whole number who have served as Superintendents, 13. Whole number who 
have served as Assistant Superintendents, 10. Whole number who have served as 
Secretaries, 9. 

This somewhat lengthy chapter must now be brought to a close ; it has cost much 
lime and labor. The records in some instances are imperfect. For eleven years 
no records can be found, and it was with considerable difficulty that the most were 
obtained. Then followed the hunting up, and noting the facts, found in twenty 
years of class books. 

Entire accuracy will not be claimed. There may be — undoubtedly there are — 
errors, as our time was very limited ; but none, it is hoped, that will seriously affect 
its value. And it is hoped that the benefit and satisfaction derived from its perusal 
will repay at least the cost of printing. The labor bestowed upon it, is of no 
consequence to anyone ; all being done " in the patience of hope, as a labor of 



A general summing up of the facts in the school's history, with reflections and 
suggestions growing out of the same, are temptations almost too great to resist. 
But I will say as regards the Superintendents — whose names are Charles E. Clarke, 
Joseph W. Backus, Andrew Parker, Edward Bristol, Albert H. Plumb, Benjamin 
H. Folger, George R. Kibbe, Seth Clark, Peter J. Carmichael, W. W. Rowley, 
George L. Squier, Samuel D. Sikes, Charles H. Baker — that two of them, Albert 
H. Plumb and Joseph W. Backus, are now ministers of the Gospel. Seven — Backus, 
Bristol, Parker, Clark, Squier, Sikes and Baker — have served the Church as Elders. 
Three remain with us ; one — Bristol — left, though not dismissed ; five have been 
dismissed, viz., C. E. Clarke, Backus, Plumb, Kibbe and Carmichael. C. E. Clarke, 
since deceased ; also Folger. Three, who also have served as Elders — Andrew Par- 
ker, Samuel D. Sikes and Seth Clark — have ceased from their labors, and gone to 
their reward. 



love." 



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[E.] 

MISSION SUNDAY SCHOOL, 

ON MILNOR STREET. 



Early in the winter of 1856, during the revival which was then in progress in this 
Church, two or three of the brethren were engaged in conversation one evening, in 
the lecture room of the old church, after prayer meeting, upon the duties of Chris- 
tians and Churches. It was thought that the Lafayette Street Church was not doing 
what it ought to do to influence the masses and bring to them a knowledge of 
Christ. Acting upon this idea, a few days after, Mr. Edward Bristol took the 
pastor, Dr. Heacock, into the eastern part of the city, prospecting, and to see what 
could be done. A room was found on Milnor street, near William, which had been 
used as the paint shop of a carriage manufactory. This was secured, and the 
necessary notices given, and the following Sabbath day, February 10, 1856, ten 
gentlemen and ten ladies organized a Sabbath school in that place, with Mr. 
Edward Bristol as Superintendent. The names of those gentlemen and ladies are : 
Mr. E. Bristol, H. H. Hale, C. G. Brundige, W. S. Shaw, Mr. Green, J. L. Hoole, 
H. A. Hogh, Seth Clark, Mr. Waters, Mr. Hawkins, Mrs. J. L. Hoole, Miss Wood- 
ward, Miss Laing, Miss H. Kimball, Miss A. Kimball, Mrs. Kibbe, Miss Ella 
Murdock, Miss McCready, Mrs. Hale, Miss Stout. Six of these gentlemen are now 
regular attendants of this Church, one is deceased, others have removed. One of 
the ladies is now with us. There were 88 children present, which number was 
increased March 1st to 149. My own connection with the school commenced the 
last of March, 1856— the first Sabbath after my conversion. On the twenty-first of 
September I was elected Superintendent, Mr. Bristol having found, as he believed, 
a larger field of usefulness at Limestone Hill, and organized a school there. At 
this time the school had not become thoroughly organized ; it was not properly 
classified. The room was seated with long settees, often with two classes on a seat. 
New, cheap, short seats were obtained, classes were graded somewhat, and class- 
books were furnished, which made a marked improvement in the order and system 
of the school. In March, 1857, the attendance had increased to 174, and the penny 
collections for the year amounted to $2.94. This year, in December, occurred our 
first festival, with 155 children present. In 1858 the attendance was not as large 
as the previous year, 155 children being the highest number. From this stand- 
point, I can only account for this on the principle that as people become rich 
they grow worldly ; for the penny collections had increased from $2.94 to $4.93, 
almost two dollars, showing positive financial prosperity. At the festival, in 1858, 
there were only 134 children present. This year we commenced to give Bibles for 



1 66 MANUAL OF THE 



constant attendance, and fifteen were given to the children. The report of this fes- 
tival says, that, after two hours pleasantly spent, the children went to their homes, 
and the teachers and officers, like Paul at Three Taverns, thanked God and took 
courage. There was considerable increase in attendance in April, 1859. Having 
made arrangements to leave the city, I resigned the superintendency, and Mr. H. 
H. Hale was elected in my place. In 1861, the largest attendance was 211. The 
number on record at the end of the year was 568. In December, 1861, Mr. 
Hale, who had served as Superintendent two years and nine months, declined to 
longer hold the office, and I was again elected, having never left the school, but 
remained as teacher. 

In 1863, the attendance had increased to 242 at one session. We had accumu- 
lated a little fund with our pennies, and books, papers, etc., were sent to the soldiers, 
amounting to $22.50. May 15, 1864, we were obliged to leave our place on Milnor 
street, and came to the chapel of this Church until another apartment could be 
provided. The largest attendance, 285, was in 1866. On February 10th of that year 
occurred our tenth anniversary. Only five of those children who commenced with 
us were present, and none of the teachers. 

Early in the winter of 1869 steps were taken to erect a new chapel. A lot 
was bought on Milnor street for $800, a subscription received, and the present build- 
ing put up and finished at an expense of $3,300, making a total expenditure of 
$4,100, and January 1, 1868, we occupied our own chapel, which has been built 
and paid for by the Lafayette Street Church and congregation. In December of 
that year, 1868, we had our largest attendance, being 516 present ; 176 of these 
were in the infant class. At the festival there were 650 present, showing our growth 
from the first festival in 1857, when 185 were present. In 1869, the average attend- 
ance was 304. Our penny collections had increased from $2.94, in 1857, to $180.76, 
in 1869. We have the names of 274 persons, who have been with us as teachers. 
One commenced with us fourteen years ago, a little girl, and is now a successful and 
faithful teacher, having been absent only three or four Sabbaths, and then from 
sickness. Another teacher has only been absent nine Sabbaths in twelve years. 
The number of children who have attended this school from its start, is probably 
from eight to ten thousand. In the months of April and May, 1870, we have 276 
names of children who have been present in our infant class during that time. Of 
the company of faithful teachers who have passed to their reward, I remember 
especially one who, in the discharge of his duty as an officer of his vessel, was lost 
overboard in a terrible storm off Cape Horn. Another, Lieut. Kellogg, fell dead 
while rallying his company at Fair Oaks. Another was left mortally wounded at 
Cold Harbor, and brought to Washington to die in hospital. Another, Arthur 
Higgins, who was for years our faithful and efficient Secretary, and who manifested 
his continuous interest in our school by leaving us, as his dying bequest, the sum of 
$500, to be expended in the purchase of our beautiful organ and to adorn our school 
room, so as to make it attractive and pleasant to the children who should come 
after him. 

The foregoing paper was prepared by Mr. S. D. Sikes, its Superintendent, for 
the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary. Since which time I have been unable 
to obtain anything definite in regard to the school ; though, in a general way, would 
say, that this Mission School has been prospered and blessed in continued success 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



and increasing interest down to the present time ; and numbers of the scholars (how- 
many, I don't know) have been brought to Christ. Mr. Sikes continued to be its 
Superintendent down to the time of his death, February 13, 1875, at which time 
the enlargement of the chapel was well in hand, and soon after pushed to its com- 
pletion, and since which time John Gowans has acted as the Superintendent. I 
cannot venture upon a more definite statement of the present and past condition 
of the school since 1870, for I have no facts before me, and have not been able to 
get any. 



68 MANUAL*OF THE 



WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 

OF LAFAYETTE ST. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



On the third day of August, 1869, in response to a call made in July previous, 
by Dr. N. G. Clark, Secretary of the "American Board of Foreign Missions," this 
Society was formed under the name of " The Ladies' Foreign Missionary Associa- 
tion of Lafayette Street Church." It was to labor in connection with the Woman's 
Board of Missions, Boston, Mass. Its first officers were : 
Mrs. Henry H. Hale, Directress. 
Miss Mary A. Ripley, Secretary. 
Mrs. G. W. Heacock, Treasurer. 
Its method of raising money was by subscription. The parish was districted ; 
a collector for each district was appointed, and each collector canvassed her own 
district once a year. 

Mrs. Hale continued in office as Directress, until the second annual meeting, a 
period of more than eighteen months. At that time, on account of ill health, she 
declined a re-election, and Mrs. Henry Childs succeeded to the office. 

Previous to this date — March 9th, 1871 — " The Woman's Foreign Missionary 
Society," auxiliary to the Presbyterian Board, had been formed, and it was deemed 
advisable to detach this organization from the " Boston Board," and to connect it 
with that of Philadelphia. 

At this, the second annual meeting, a resolution to effect this change, was offered, 
and carried in the affirmative. The system of voluntary contributions was also 
adopted. 

The Constitution was somewhat modified, and the Society assumed its present 
name. 

There have been few changes among the officers. The following ladies constitute 
the present management : 

Mrs. Henry Childs, President. 

Mrs. George C. Stearns, First Vice-President. 

Mrs. W. G. Bancroft, Secretary. 

Miss Mary A. Ripley, Recording Secretary. 

Miss Lucy F. Lander, Corresponding Secretary. 

Miss Harriet Buell, Treasurer. 
It having been decided by the " Foreign Board," that a territorial division of 
missionary societies would increase their efficiency, this Society by vote — April 
8th, 1872 — connected itself with the New York Board. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 69 



The 'method of voluntary contribution has justified itself, and is regarded as the 
corner-stone of steady upbuilding of Church interest in missions. 

While the attention of the Society has been somewhat directed to various objects, 
the mission in Persia has been the chief object of its care and beneficence. 

The annual meeting occurs in April. Quarterly meetings are also held, and 
frequently reports are made at our " Monthly Concerts." 

The whole amount of money raised and expended upon the various objects 
under its care and direction, since its organization, amounts to a total of $1,532.26. 

The foregoing was handed in by Mrs. H. Childs. The following closing remarks 
are by the pastor : 

" It is also proper to add that Ladies interested in this Church Society, have been 
also active and influential in the organization of the "Woman's Presbyterial Soci- 
ety for Foreign Missions of the Presbytery of Buffalo," and that in most of the 
Churches of the Presbytery auxiliary societies are now formed." 



THE HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 



Mr. Edward Bristol furnishes the few following items in regard to this institution. 
Of its officers, the amount of money raised, and of its general workings and 
success, I have no dates before me in which to base a statement. 

Mr. Bristol says : " For several years, it was the privilege of members of this 
Church, to be identified with Christian work on the Sabbath in the Erie County 
Penitentiary and the Erie County Almshouse. 

" Public religious exercises were conducted, after which a systematic course of 
visitation for religious conversation with the inmates was made. 

" The engravings and mottoes which decorate the walls of the chapel of the 
Penitentiary were donated by the Young People's Bible Class of this Church. 

" It was in connection with this visitation of the woman's department of these 
institutions that the first steps were taken to meet the pressing demand for a Home, 
where such of the women as desired to abandon a wrong course of life could find 
a refuge and be cared for, until they could obtain suitable places ; and also to pro- 
vide for virtuous but unfortunate women coming to the city, as might temporarily 
need the benefits of a home. 

"A number of Christian ladies — many of whom were connected, as members, 
with this Church — entered upon the work of organizing such a Home. 

" A public meeting was held at St. James Hall " \before which Mr. Edward 
Bristol, laid a full statement of the condition and needs of these unfortunate and 
unhappy classes, after whic/t] "Addresses were made by clergymen of different 
denominations. And soon after the present Home for the Friendless was estab- 
lished, which has proved from its opening eminently a Christian and noble 
institution. 



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" Soon after the establishment of the Home, it was deemed expedient to "provide 
a place especially for the reception of such fallen women as might be found in the 
institutions named, and in connection with the work of Christian ladies in other 
places in the city. 

" Ingleside was founded, and its useful and successful history has well rewarded 
its founders." 

On the second day of April, 1869, eighteen Christian women of different Churches 
met at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Union on Evans street, for the 
purpose of holding a prayer meeting, at which fourteen of the girls of that neigh- 
borhood were present. In conversing with them it was found that numbers would 
gladly give up their evil course of life if they had any place to go, but they were 
outcasts of society and without hope. 

In the conviction of these noble Christian women there was but one way for their 
escape, and that was in the establishment of a Home for the care and protection of 
those who really wished to leave their present life of degradation and of shame. 

It was therefore resolved to see what could be done. Meeting at the house of 
Mrs. George C. Stearns, they organized a society, whose special object was the 
reclamation of erring women, and elected for its officers the following ladies, to serve 
for one year : 

Mrs. George C. Stearns, President. 
Mrs. Joseph Guild, Vice-President. 
Mrs. Charles E. Walbridge, Secretary. 
Mrs. H. H. Otis, Treasurer, 

and a board of nine lady managers, adopting a constitution, giving it for the first 
year "a local habitation" through the liberality of Mr. Joseph Guild, on the 
corner of Vermont and Thirteenth streets, " and a name," the good old Scotch one 
of Ingleside — "A home fireside" — where, during that year, and especially since 
1 871, in their present large and commodious structure on Seneca street, the free 
gift of one of our fellow-citizens, Mr. George W. Tifft, many of the comforts of a 
home, its shelter, care and protection have been afforded, and where many have 
been reclaimed and many brought to Christ. 

This institution has, according to its reports from year to year, been greatly pros- 
pered, receiving from the State in 1872 an appropriation of $7,580.59, and from 
other sources more than half as much more, so that there remains in the treasury, 
over and above disbursements, $5,738.57. Through the influence of Mr. Seth 
Clark, the ladies were enabled to visit the penitentiary, with opportunity to con- 
verse with the female prisoners, and thus to make them feel that the doors of 
Ingleside were open to any and all who might wish in the future to lead a better 
life ; thus following strictly the Master, who came " to seek and to save the lost." 

The family at the Home have attended the East Side Church. Bible classes and 
prayer meetings have been held, and many conversions and restitutions to first homes 
been made, and many have passed away within the walls of the Home, happy in the 
knowledge of a Saviour's love. 

While this is a city institution, in so far as it is sustained and patronized by the 
ladies of many different Churches, yet it was thought proper to give so much of the 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 171 



history of its workings, because of the fact that the two ladies of our Church who 
were chosen at the first meeting as its President and Vice-President, have remained 
in those places through all its history, and several other ladies of this Church have 
served on its board of managers, etc. 



THE CORDON OF TEMPERANCE 

OF THE LAFAYETTE STREET CHURCH. 



This society was organized early in the year 1S72. The first meeting was held in 

January of that year, but the organization was not really effected until February 20, 
1872, by the election of the following officers for the ensuing year: 

Albert G. Brown, Chief. 

Miss Lucy F. Lander, First Vice-Chief. 

William L. Doyle, Second Vice-Chief. 

Byron H. Wescott, Secretary. 

Miss Lizzie Otto, Treasurer. 

Officers for 1873. 

Albert G. Brown, Chief. 

Mrs. C. P. H. Nason First Vice-Chief. 

James M. Henderson Second Vice-Chief. 

Byron H. Wescott, Secretary. 

Miss Albertine Horton, Treasurer. 

Officers for 1874. 

William Turner, Chief. 

Mrs. C. P. H. Nason, First Vice-Chief. 

J. Albert Bixby Second Vice-Chief. 

Francis A. Board, Secretary. 

Miss Jennie Olver, Treasurer. 

Officers for 1875. 

. William Turner, Chief. 

James Lynd, First Vice-Chief. 

Miss Ella Lowe, Second Vice-Chief. 

Edmund J. Plumley Secretary. 

Miss Ida Barker, Treasurer. 



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Officers for 1876. 

Howard Winship, .......... Chief. 

Frederick Howard, First Vice-Chief. 

Miss Nellie Palmer, Second Vice-Chief. 

Joshua Parker, . < Secretary. 

Miss Martha Lynd, Treasurer. 

. Amount of money contributed since its organization, $472.09. 

The foregoing was furnished by Miss Mary E. Chichester, to which I will add 
the following : 

This now flourishing enterprise began its career as an organized society in a 
very quiet, modest way, having for its object the promotion of the great interest of 
temperance, as well as the cultivation of a spirit of social intercourse among the 
young people of the Church and congregation ; and to provide seasons, specially, 
for musical, literary and social entertainment ; believing that in organized effort, 
and the culture of the Christian graces through pleasant religious exercises and 
personal contact, that much more can be accomplished in the way of promoting 
any great reform in the community, than by any separate individual effort. 

Although unpretentious and unostentatious in its beginnings, it has enlisted the 
sympathy of all the young people of the Church and congregation, and a few of 
the older members, and has grown steadily to be an institution of much influence, 
not only in the Church, but also attracting largely the sympathy and attention of 
the general public ; so much so, that the attendance upon its entertainments render 
the chapel inadequate to the accommodation of those who are attracted by them, 
and the capacity of the main audience room of the church and St. James Hall have 
latterly been called into requisition. 

Under the able and efficient management of its chiefs, assistants and committees, 
it has, especially for the last two years, grown in usefulness and interest far beyond 
the fondest anticipations of its promoters, and may with truth be said to be a 
power not only in the Church to which it belongs, but in the community at large, 
the ultimate reach and influence of which cannot easily be estimated. 

Its membership embraces the young ladies and gentlemen of the Church and 
congregation, and is open to any one who will sign its Pledge. Its offices are filled, 
and its committees made up of persons of both sexes. And to this union of effort 
and interest is largely due its present flourishing condition, together with the Chris- 
tian sympathy necessarily enlisted in behalf of any earnest effort which has for its 
object the safety of society against vice, and the salvation of men. 

Its entertainments have the elements of the " spice of life," " variety " — consist- 
ing in musical performances, interspersed with essays, readings, recitations, short, 
pithy speeches, sometimes closing with a short season of social intercourse. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 73 



[GJ 

THE YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The following, in relation to the Young Men's Association, was handed in by 
C. H. Baker : 

Young men have for many years constituted a large and interesting proportion 
of the Church and congregation. The majority of them have come to us unheralded 
and unknown. Many of these we have learned to know and love ; while not a few 
went as they came, unknown. 

It was mainly for the purpose of reaching and offering Christian fellowship to 
this class of young men, that the Association was organized in the month of June, 
1868. The object of the organization, as distinctly stated in its constitution, then 
adopted, was "the mutual improvement of each of the members, spiritually and r 
socially." It admitted at the same time any young man of a good moral character, 
the members pledging themselves to seek out, and, as far as practicable, to bring 
each stranger under the influence of the Association. 

Those that were foremost in forming this society, themselves active and efficient 
in promoting and sustaining the mission enterprises of the Y. M. C. A., knowing 
by actual experience the value of Christian labor for developing and strengthening 
them spiritually, immediately recognized the importance of offering some work that 
might interest the hearts and utilize the strength of the membership. 

In the month of October, of the same year, the Association decided to establish 
a prayer service at the Milnor Street Chapel, Assuming the responsibility of sus- 
taining these meetings entirely upon their own resources, they resolved, with God's, 
help, to make this a fruitful vine in His vineyard. And for nearly seven years they 
toiled and prayed ; oftentimes in great discouragements, sometimes under annoying 
difficulties. But, in full faith in His promises, they persevered, until the long-sought 
blessing came, and with it a large and precious outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the 
influence of which is manifest to this day. 

The Association has an active membership of about forty, although the rolls 
show a much larger number of names. Its officers consist of a President, Vice- 
President, Secretary and Treasurer. Three of the membership are in the ministry, 
and three are preparing to enter upon its duties. 

But, as intimated in the commencement of this review, the principal object of the 
Association was to attract and benefit young men that were strangers to Christ and 
to them ; and in this they have been very successful. Through their instrumentality 



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some have learned to love the Lord Jesus, many strengthened and encouraged, and 
strangers found a welcome and a home. 

From the peculiar nature of its organization and purposes, it may have committed 
some errors ; nevertheless, it has accomplished much good. And there are many 
hearts in this city, and scattered throughout this fair land of ours, who thank God 
for the Young Men's Association of the Lafayette Street Church. 



LIST OF OFFICERS, COMMENCING AT DATE OF ORGANIZATION. 

June, 1868, to June, 1869. 

James W. Chatman, President. 

P. J. Carmichael Vice-President. 

D. F. Stewart, Secretary. 

Chas. H. Baker, . . . . Treasurer. 

June, 1869, to June, 1870. 

P. A. LeE, . . . . t •. President. 

S. W. Warren, Vice-President. 

Chas. H. Baker, Secretary. 

L. B. Perry, Treasurer. 

Mr. Warren was President for the larger part of this term, consequent upon the 
resignation of Mr. Lee a short time after his election. 

June, 1870, to June, 1871. 

John H. Brown, President. 

C. J. Dorrance, Vice-President. 

John Lapey, Secretary. 

C. T. Crittenden, Treasurer. 

June, 1871, to June, 1872. 

Chas. H. Baker, President. 

H. C. Larned, Vice-President. 

Chas. W. Guild, Secretary. 

William Turner, Treasurer. 

June, 1872, to June, 1873. 4 

John R. Linen, President. 

John H. Brown, Vice-President. 

John Lapey, Secretary. 

S. R. Sikes, . . Treasurer. 

June, 1873, to June, 1874. 

James M. Henderson, , . President. 

J. J. McWilliams, Vice-President. 

Edward N. Brush, Secretary. 

Edwin G. Sawn, < Treasurer. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 75 



June, 1874, to June, 1875. 

Edwin G. Sawn, * President. 

Geo. W. Bruce, Vice-President. 

S. W. Warren, . Secretary. 

J. A. Bixby, Treasurer. 

June, 1875, to June, 1876. 

W. W. Brown President. 

Howard Winship Vice-President. 

Francis C. Board, Secretary. 

James Lynd, . Treasurer. 

June, 1876, to June, 1877. 

Philander B. Locke, President. 

Byron H. Wescott, Vice-President. 

Robt. T. Bixby, Secretary. 

Louis H. Brown, .' . . . Treasurer. 



The Association has at times given largely and generously, for its means, to 
different benevolent objects ; but to what extent cannot now be definitely stated. 



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[H.] 

SUMMARY OF CHURCH HISTORY. 



On Sunday, June 8, 1845, stated services were commenced in the church, edifice 
known as the Park Church, under the labors of Grosvenor W. Heacock, licentiate 
of the Buffalo Presbytery. About the last of July a corporation was formed by 
the election of a Board of Trustees ; the names are on page 3. A committee, con- 
sisting of Abner Bryant, George S,tow and Dwight Needham, was appointed under 
resolution, October 1, 1845, to ask the Presbytery of Buffalo to constitute a Church 
in the place of the Park Church, to be known as the Lafayette Street Church, 
which request was complied with, appointing Thursday evening, October 16, 1845, 
the time for the organization ; at which time were present, of the Presbyterial 
Committee, Rev. William Todd, of Busti, Moderator ; Rev. Mr. Gillett, of James- 
town, and Rev. O. G. Orton, of Ripley. Rev. Mr. Gillett preached the sermon. 

The Church was organized in due form, with .the following-named persons as 
original members : 



Abner Bryant 4* 

Mrs. Anna Bryant,}:* 

R. B. Heacock * 

Mrs. Abby P. Heacock,* 

Miss Abby E. Heacock,§ 

Mrs. Edna S. Heacock,* 

Charles E. Clarke,}: 

Robert E. Townsend,* 

N. B. Palmer,** 

Mrs. Mary Ann Palmer,* 



George R. Kibbe.J 
Edward Bristol,§ 
H. M. Wicks,}: 
George Howard,}: 
Mrs. Ellen Howard,* 
Dwight Needham 4 
Mrs. Anna Needham,}: 
John Newland.J 
Samuel H. Fields,§ 
Mrs. Mary J. Fields,§ 



Orrin Edgarton,* 
Mrs. Louisa Edgarton,* 
J. Jewett White,}: 
Geo. DeWitt Clinton,}: 
Phoebe Selden,* 
Mrs. A. R. Burt, J 
Miss Eliza G. Cotton* 
Miss Ann Templeton,^[* 
Zilpha Ann Sweet,* 
Barbury Garmian.f 



Of these 30 original members, only 3 remain, viz. : Miss Abby E. Heacock (now 
Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge), Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Fields ; Edward Bristol, a fourth, per- 
haps, as his connection with the Church has never been severed, though taking no 
part with us (now in Brockport). Of this original number, 10 have been dismissed 
to other Churches, 4 of whom since have died ; 10 having died while members, 
4 after having been dismissed, and two (Mrs. A. R. Burt and Barbury Garmian) 
unknown. 



* Deceased. 



$ Dismissed. 



§ Still members. 



Unknown. T Mrs. John Howell. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 77 



The Church having been organized, and the articles of faith adopted, the first 
two Elders were designated by ballot, resulting in the selection of Abner Bryant and 
Dwight Needham, who were immediately installed. Dwight Needham was also 
ordained, Abner Bryant having been ordained. Notice was now given of a meet- 
ing to be held on the next Friday evening, October 17, 1845, to take into consider- 
ation the call of a Pastor. At which time the meeting was held, Rev. Edward 
Ingalls acting as Moderator ; when, upon ballot being taken, Rev. G. W. Heacock 
received the unanimous vote. The call was made, signed by the Elders and the 
Trustees, and put into the hands of Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, who signified his 
acceptance, at the stipulated salary of $600 per annum, payable quarterly. The 
ordination and installation services took place on the ensuing Sabbath, October 19, 
1845, on which occasion services were introduced and sermon preached by the Rev. 
Dr. Spencer, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; constitutional questions and ordaining prayer by 
Rev. William Todd, of Busti ; 'charge to the Pastor by the Rev. A. T. Hopkins, of 
this city ; address to the people by the Rev. O. C. Beardsley, of Silver Creek ; 
benediction by the Pastor. 

The first meeting of the session of the Lafayette Street Church, after the instal- 
lation, was held at the house of the Pastor's father, November 19, 1845, at which 
time Elder Bryant was appointed Clerk of the session, and 4 persons were pro- 
pounded for fellowship from sister Churches. 

The first Communion or Sacramental season occurred May 3, 1846, at which 
time 34 were admitted to membership on letters from sister Churches, largely from 
the now extinct Park Church, 22 being the number from that church. There were 
4 other Communion seasons in 1846 — 1st to 4th ; the number admitted in all, 60 on 
letter, 3 on profession, making a total of 63. 

Elder Dwight Needham was dismissed, at his own request, to the Presbyterian 
Church in Springville, this county, December 4, 1846. 

1847. — I find the record of only 2 Communion seasons for 1847 — 5th to 6th. 
Admitted on letter 13, on profession of their faith 24 ; total, 37. 

June 24, 1847, Jesse Stone and Joseph \V. Backus were elected Elders, and were 
ordained Sabbath afternoon, July II, 1847. The ordination sermon was preached 
by Rev. F. W. Graves ; the constitutional questions put by the Pastor ; ordaining 
prayer by Rev. Mr. Graves ; exhortation to the Elders and the people by the Pas- 
tor ; the right hand of fellowship by the existing session, closing by hymn, prayer, 
and benediction. 

On the following Thursday, July 15, Elder J. W. Backus was chosen Clerk of 
the session. 

July 18, 1847, Sunday, church closed for repairs, and the Pastor absent. 
September 11, 1847, Joseph W. Backus was chosen Treasurer of the session. 

1848. — There were observed 5 Communion seasons during the year — 7th to nth. 
Admitted 50 by letter, 29 on profession ; total, 79 — of which number, 38 by letter 
and 26 on profession = 64, were admitted April 2. 

1849. — During the year 1849, 5 Communion seasons were observed — 12th to 
16th — and were admitted by letter n, and 9 on profession of their faith in Christ, 
a total of only 20 for the year. 

1850. — The ebb in the tide continued during the year 1850, in which occurred 
3 Sacramental observances — 17th to 19th — when were admitted 17 by letter, 4 
on profession, a total of only 21. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



October 8, 1850, Andrew Parker and Selim Sears, having been duly elected, were 
ordained to the Eldership. Rev. Dr. M. L. R. Thompson preached the ordination 
sermon ; exhortation to Elders and people, ordination prayer, and constitutional 
questions by the Pastor ; right hand of fellowship by the existing session and 
Elders present from other Churches. 

November 25, 1850, the Pastor, who had, since the dismissal of Elder Backus, 
been acting as Clerk of session, gave in his resignation, and Elder Andrew Parker 
was chosen to the positions both of Clerk and Treasurer. 

The old church edifice burned in March of the year 1850. No Communion 
season after July 7th. 

1851. — January 5, 1851, was held the first Communion season in the rebuilt 
church — number of communicants, 175 ; 4 others were held in the same year — 
20th to 24th. Admitted 19 by letter, 15 on profession ; a total of 34 for the year. 

1852. — During 1852 there were observed 5 Communion seasons — 25th to 29th — 
when were admitted 28 by letter, 5 on profession=33 ; 190 communicants. 

December 5, 1852, Elder Andrew Parker was dismissed to the Presbyterian 
Church at Adrian, Michigan ; whereupon his services as Clerk and Treasurer of the 
session terminated. 

1853. — During the year 1853 were observed 6 Communion seasons — 30th to 35th 
— on which were received into the Church 32 by letter and 53 on profession of their 
faith in Christ ; a total of 85 for the year. 

Some time during the year 1853 (of the whole proceeding the records of the 
session is silent), John Otto and Seth Clark having been duly elected, were ordained 
in July to the Eldership in the Church. (The records give no account of the 
services.) 

July 10, 1853, the following persons signed a note of $500 to create a perpetual 
scholarship in Hamilton College, viz., Reuben B. Heacock, Seth Clark, Selim Sears, 
John Otto. 

At some time previous to July 10, 1853 (though not noted on the record), Selim 
Sears had been chosen Clerk of the session, probably soon after the dismissal of 
Elder Parker, which took place December 5, 1852. 

In August or September, 1853, Elder Seth Clark was chosen Clerk of the session, 
and held the position until his death, having rendered faithful and efficient service 
for the long period of 22 years. 

1854. — Six Communion seasons — 36th to 41st — were observed in the year i854» 
and were admitted 23 by letter and 12 on profession ; in all 35. 

1855. — There were held 5 Communion seasons — 42d to 46th — during the year 
1855. Twenty-one were admitted by letter and 9 on profession ; total, 30. 

1856. — Six Sacramental occasions — 47th to 52d — during the year 1856. Admitted 
by letter 27, on profession of their faith 55 ; a total of 82. 

February 2, 1856, Elder Andrew Parker presented a letter from the Presbyterian 
Church of Adrian, Michigan, and was re-admitted to membership, and assuming 
his place in the session, was elected to the post of Treasurer of the session fund 
August 3, 1858, holding the position down to the year 1873, that of his final dis- 
missal from the Church militant on earth. 

1857. — In 1857 were held 6 Communion seasons — 53d to 58th— when 21 united 
with the Church by letter and 4 on profession ; in all 25. 



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LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 79 



1858. — During the year 1858 were held 6 Communion seasons — 59th to 64th — 
and 16 were admitted by letter and 28 on profession ; a total of 44. 

1859. — In the year 1859 were held 6 Communion seasons — 65th to 70th. Admit- 
ted to by letter, 6 on profession ; total, 16. Membership, 388. 

1860. — Five Communion seasons — 71st to 75th — August being omitted. Admit- 
ted by letter 22, on profession 3=25. Whole number of members, 400. 

1861. — Six seasons of Communion for the year 1861 — 76th to 81st. Admitted 13 
by letter and 4 on profession ; total, 17. 

April 13, 1861, the purchase of the lot on Washington street, 35 feet front and 
no feet deep, was effected, from Mrs. Phoebe Smith. 

April 15, Mr. O. F. Presbrey, from the Committee on Contributions, reported 
$14,000 pledged toward the erection of the present church edifice, and that $16,000 
was available. 

In June of this year a call from the North Church was extended to our Pastor. 
The proposition of such change was voted down by this Church. 

It was resolved, December 2, 1861, that the new building be commenced in May 
next, 1862, and that estimates be had, and a plan presented, on a basis of 
$15,000 cost. 

Number of communicants, 307. 

1862. — Five Communion seasons — 82d to 86th — were observed during this year 
(December omitted). Thirty-six persons united with the Church, 22 on profession 
and 14 on certificate. 

March 8, it was determined to purchase five feet additional on Washington street 
(now 40 in all). 

Resolved, also, to pay James W. Bixby $50 for leading the singing for one year, 
from March, 1862. (He has served in that capacity to the present year, when choir 
singing took the place of congregational.) 

Number of members, 315. 

1863. — During the year were held 5 Communion seasons — 87th to 91st (April 
omitted). Admitted by letter 23, on profession 15 ; total, 38. 

July 28, 1863, indefinite leave of absence was granted our Pastor, to enable him 
to join the 94th regiment, then in Pennsylvania. 

July 21st, the valuation of pews were fixed, amounting to $37,500. Rental, 15 
per cent, on valuation and 10 per cent, to owners. 

Communicants, 345. 

1864. — This year is signalized as being the one in which the greatest number 
were admitted to membership in all its thirty-one years of history, and also the 
greatest number on profession of faith, 61, and by letter 44 ; making a total of 105. 
Six Communion seasons were observed — 926. to 97th. 

At the annual election, June 7th, it was voted to raise the Pastor's salary to $2,500. 
July 12, 1864, it was resolved to alter the gallery fronts to conform to the idea of 
the Pastor. 

On Wednesday evening, July 20, 1864, Peter Gowans, Edward Bristol and S. D. 
Sikes were elected to the Eldership in this Church. 

Peter Gowans and Edward Bristol were ordained September 25th. (The record 
is silent.) Mr.*Sikes being absent, he was ordained October 2, 1864. 



180 MANUAL OF THE 



January 4th, expenditure of putting in the book-racks and contribution boxes 
was approv.ed. 

Number of members, 447. 

1865. — January 5th, it was resolved to raise the Pastor's salary to $3,000. 
During this year 6 Communion services were held — 98th to 103d ; which in 

all 24 brought letters and 11 made profession ; total, 35. Members, 461. 

1866. — There were observed 6 Communion seasons — 104th to 109th ; and were 
admitted on letter 21, and 69 on profession of faith in Christ; a total of 90 — a 
star year ! 

November 19th, baize doors were put into vestibule. 
Number of communicants, 546. 

1867. — No Communion seasons were omitted, all from the 110th to the 115th 
being observed, and 39 persons were admitted to membership, 24 by letter and 15 
on profession. Members, 543. 

1868. — During this year were observed 5 Communion seasons (June omitted), 
from the 116th to the 120th inclusive. 

February 17th, preliminary steps were taken looking to the purchase of a new 
organ at $3,000. Church tinted and painted this year. Organ purchased. 
Record gives the membership at 651. 

Admitted this year, 12 on profession, and 18 by letter ; total 30. 

1869. — During the year 1869 only 4 seasons of Communion — 121st to 124th — 
October and December being omitted, the pastor being absent in California. This 
was one of the star years, only one other year exceeding it in the number of admis- 
sions (1864), and that by only one. Whole number admitted 104 ; by letter 32, and 
on profession 72. 

December 17th, L. L. Lewis moved that the system of renting seats at auction be 
abolished, and that present occupants be allowed to keep their sittings. 
Membership as per record, 720. 

1870. — In June of this year occurred the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Heacock's 
pastorate of this Church. [For proceedings, see pages 117 to 131, this volume.] 
There were held 6 Communion services during the year, from the 125th to the 130th 
inclusive, and united with us 20 on certificate and 10 on profession ; 30 in all. 
Members, 728. 

1 87 1. — Five Communions in 18 71, from 131st to 135th inclusive. Additions by 
letter 27, on profession 11 ; total, 38. 

1872. — Five Communion seasons in 1872, from 136th to 140th inclusive. Addi- 
tions by letter 11, on profession 15 ; total, 26. 

October 6th of this year occurred the last Communion prior to the pastor leaving 
for Europe. 

Rev. Mr. Calkins officiated December 8th, Mr. Nason, the acting pastor, not 
having been ordained. 

Membership, 639 [too large]. 

1873. — There were 5 Communion seasons in 1873 (August omitted) — from 141st 
t8 145th inclusive — Rev. Mr. McLean officiating Feb. 2d, Rev. Dr. Chester at the 
other 4, April, June, October and December ; 10 were admitted on letter and 52 on 
profession ; total, 62. * 

Some time in this year (1873), brother Peter Gowans ceased to act as Elder from 
severe sickness, and is still wholly incapacitated, not able even to attend church. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. l8l 



1874. — During the year 1874 there were observed 6 Communion seasons — 146th 
to the 151st — and united with the Church 11 by letter and 9 on profession — 20. 

Pastor returned from Europe and officiated at the June season ; no admissions. 
Rev. Mr. Wood officiated January 7th, and Rev. C. P. H. Nason officiated (assisted 
by Rev. Mr. Long) April 5 th. ■« 

August 12, 1874, at a meeting held as per notice for the election of Elders, it was 
voted that the Church adopt the system of rotary Eldership ; whereupon the three 
Elders present, Otto, Clark and Sikes, tendered their resignations, that being a rule of 
the assembly. Exception, by consent, was made in the case of Elder Gowans, in con- 
sequence of his age and infirmity. (Mr. Bristol, having left and not being present, 
did not, neither has he since, given in his resignation.) Whereupon the meeting 
proceeded to the election of a bench of nine Elders, to serve for the period of three 
years ; and after several meetings and ballotings, finally, August 26th, the following 
persons were chosen to serve for three years : 



November 15th, the above, with the exception of C. G. Brundige, John Gowans 
and J. L. Alberger, were duly installed, the three last named having declined to 
accept, though urgently requested to do so by the Pastor. 

The membership, as stated on the record, is 679 ; probably about 500. 

1875. — This will be remembered as a sad and memorable year in our Church his- 
tory. At 2 o'clock, Saturday morning, February 13th, Elder Samuel D. Sikes, 
after a short, terrible illness (typhoid pneumonia), passed to hi% final rest, and to 
his exceedingly great reward. In his death the Church has lost one of its most 
active and energetic workers, and the cause of Christ a most zealous promoter ; 
temperance, and all reform, one of the most active champions, and community one 
of its most busy and thoroughgoing citizens. Inscrutable are the ways of Provi- 
dence ! Mysterious, indeed, to us, now, is it, that men of so much usefulness in 
the Church of Christ and in the community should be thus cut down in " man- 
hood's proudest prime" ! But in all such providences of God, we can only learn 
the lesson, that strength is alone with the Lord — that the moving on of His cause 
and kingdom, on earth, is not in the force or strength of man's arm, or man's will, 
but in God ; that He only uses His people as instruments, and in laying one down, 
even though ever so efficient, some other is brought into action, and though per- 
forming duties in quite a different way, still the work progresses toward a final 
triumph, and, in the end, all will be seen to have been ordered wisely and well, and 
all to the glory of God. The awful mysteries of life and death are open facts to Him 
who sees the end from the beginning. I believe the dear ones gone, have read, and 
are reading, many pages of the earth-sealed book, which, in our time, glass-dark- 
ened vision, seem so mysterious and so strange. In calm trust, in abiding faith, we 
leave all, O God, with Thee, and say, Thy will be done ! 

As the year drew towards its close, the saddest event of our history breaks in, 
with its awful import, to cloud the Church in a gloom too overwhelming to find 
adequate expression in human speech. Before such a dispensation we can only 
bow our heads and hearts in mute grief and silent amazement. On the seventh of 



John Otto, 
C. H. Baker, 
C. G. Brundige, 



Seth Clark, 

S. N. Lawrence, 

Geo. L. Squier, 



S. D. Sikes, 
John Gowans, 
J. L. Alberger. 



1 82 MANUAL OF THE 



December, Elder Seth Clark, seeking to avoid the frightful consequences of his late 
troublous life, took into his own hand the manner and moment of his death ! winged 
his own distressed, harassed and perturbed spirit into the solemn presence of Him 
whose justice is tempered with mercy, and whose nature is Infinite Love ! 

During the year 1875, 4 Communion seasons were observed, June and August 
being omitted, on account of the closing of the church, consequent upon the neces- 
sity, forced upon us, of laying deeper the foundation of the west wall of our 
church edifice. God grant that, while we lay sure and firm foundations of our 
earthly Zion, we may be enabled, through Infinite Grace, to lay more surely the 
foundation of our Spiritual Zion upon the " Rock of Ages." 

The 4 Sacramental seasons of this year embrace the I52d to 155th. There were 
admitted to the Church 26 in all — 15 on profession, and 11 by letter. . 

1876. — This year is marked, in the history of its first months, as a season of 
precious visitation of the Holy Spirit, in many parts of our land, in the conversion 
of many precious souls — our Church, among others, having been favored with abun- 
dant blessings, and quite a number of the young of the Sabbath School having 
taken their stand for Christ. There were held 3 Communion seasons down to June 
4th — 156th to 158th — and were admitted 46 on profession, and 10 by letter from 
sister Churches, a total of 56 * 

During the past year the Church has been much incommoded, in consequence of 
the construction of the new building in our neighborhood, the lowering of the grade 
of the street and sidewalk, and the repaving, accompanied with considerable 
expense. No evening meetings from the last Sunday in June, in consequence of 
the gas being cut off from lowering the street grade, till this goes to press. 

*The table on page ^8 was printed before the June Communion. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 83 



[I.] 

CHURCH CONTRIBUTIONS. 



1845, 1846, 1847. 
No reports. 

1848. 

Foreign Missions $88.53 

Home Missions 74-45 

Other objects 4 172.37 



1849. 

No report. 

1850. 

Foreign Missions 

Home Missions 

Other benevolent objects 



1851. 



No report. 



1852. 

Foreign Missions 

Home Missions 

Other benevolent objects 



1853-7. 
No report ; 5 years blank. 

1858. 

Home Missions and Bethel.. 

Foreign Missions and Amer- 
ican and Foreign Christian 
Union 

Other objects 



$335-35 



$37.00 
19.00 
86.00 

$142.00 



$52.00 
64.00 
200.00 

$316.00 



$105.00 



1 74.00 
283.65 

$562.65 



1859. 

Foreign Missions $107.00 

Home Missions 77-00 

Other objects 770.00 

First report of Trustee Fund 2.363.00 

$3,317.00 

During these fourteen years 
we have only five reports 
of benevolent funds, and 
these only partial. Basing 
an estimate on the aver- 
age of these five years, we 
would have, for the benev- 
olent contributions of the 

Church, only about $6,500.00 

for the first fourteen years, 
probably much less than 
the actual amount. 

i860. 

Foreign Missions $106.80 

Home Missions 77-12 

Other charities 741.97 

Trustee Fund, estimated . . . 2,500.00 

$3425.89 

1 86 1. 

Home Missions, including 
Bethel $120.00 

Foreign Missions and Amer- 
ican and Foreign Christian 

Union 326.69 

Other objects 303.57 

$750-26 



MANUAL 



OF THE 



1862. 

Foreign Missions and Amer- 
ican and Foreign Christian 
Union $143.46 

Home Missions, including 

Bethel 113. 14 

Other benevolent objects . . . 205.00 



$461.60 

1863. 

Home Missions $70.00 

Foreign Missions 217.00 

Other charities. . . . 672.17 

$959-17 

1864. 

Home Missions $100.00 

Foreign Missions 154.00 

Other charities 362.00 



$616.00 

1865. 

No report whatever. 

1866. 

Session report, no particulars, $2,234.37 
Trustee report 5,250.00 

$7,484.37 

We have only one Trustee 
report previous to this 
(1859). Taking the mean 
of these two reports of 
the Trustee Fund, we have 
$3,806 x 21 = $79,926.00 
would be the estimated 



amount of the Trustee 
Fund down to 1866, a 
period of 21 years. 

Benevolent contributions, as 

given, to 1859 .... . . 6,500.00 

From 1859 to I $66 4,374.72 

Add Sunday School collec- 
tions to 1866 2,807.40 



$93,594.12 

This gives us the amount, 
as near as can be estimated, 
down to the year 1866, 21 
years. 



1867. 

Home Missions $442.70 

Foreign Missions 500.98 

Poor Fund 463.25 

Trustee Fund 7,952.86 

Other charitable objects. . . . 3,004.07 



$12,363.86 

1868. 

Foreign Missions $612.55 

Home Missions 402.83 

Monthly Concert 99.00 

American Missionary Asso- 
ciation 170.50,. 

American and Foreign Chris- 
tian Union 146.95 

Bethel cause 89.67 

Other charities 553-28 

Miscellaneous charities and 

objects 2,927.09 

Trustee Fund, as reported. . 9,594.49 

$14,596.36 

1869. 

Trustee Fund $4,736.26 

Different missions 1,390.44 

Other charities and objects. 4,997.52 



$11,124.22 

This latter includes Sabbath 
collections, special sub- 
scriptions by Messrs. Hale 
and Sikes, also the organ 



fund. 

1870. 

Foreign Missions $61.25 

Home Missions 100.00 

Howard Missions 98.88 

Miscellaneous chanties 2,773.42 

Trustee Fund. ............ 6,986.85 



$10,020.40 

1871. 

Foreign Missions $361.55 

Home Missions 361.55 

City Missions 313-93 

Miscellaneous charities, col- 
lections 5,311.88 

Trustee Fund 9,876.58 



$16,225.49 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



185 



1872. 

Trustee Fund $7,017.44 

Church Treasurer, miscella- 
neous. 2,467.00 

Other objects (Milnor Street 

Chapel, etc.) 1,813.43 

$11,297.87 

1873. 

Foreign Missions $157-77 

Home Missions 157-77 

Church Missionary 210.37 

Trustee Fund 8,565.00 

Ladies' Association 1,435-33 

Woman's Foreign Mission- 
ary Society 203.10 

Miscellaneous objects and 

charities 2,918.01 

$i3,647-35 

1874. 

Foreign Missions $105.00 

Home Missions 105.00 

Ladies' Foreign Missions. . . 250.00 

Carpeting and upholstering. 1,332.18 

Home Missionary 230.00 

Trustee Fund, 9,210.31 

Miscellaneous objects and 

charities 3,236.94 

$14,469.43 

1875. 

Foreign Missions $148.18 

Home Missions 148.18 

Trustee Fund 6,134.82 

Private individuals for mis- 
sions 394-00 

Woman's Foreign Mission- 
ary Society 217.30 



Miscellaneous charities and 






5,486.26 






Reported Jan. 12, 1876. 




t Q >-A 
I07O. 




Foreign Missions 


$476.43 




425.00 


Woman's Foreign Mission- 






200.48 




7,426.00 




2,480.23 




798.OO 




$1I,804.I4 



Recapitulation. 

Whole amount of pew rents, $148,063.69 

Whole amount of benevolent 

contributions 70,917.93 

Whole amount collected by 

the Sabbath School 6,315.68 

Amount of original purchase 5 ,200.00 

For rebuilding after the fire. 9,000.00 

Amount paid for additional 

ground 4,400.00 

Cost of present church edifice 17,500.00 

Cost of chapel 3,000.00 

Cost of furnishing church as 

estimated 3,500.00 

Cost of lot and building, Mil- 
nor Street Chapel 6,015.00 

Grand total $273,912.30 

As near as can be estimated, 
An average per annum (32 

years) $8,559-76 

Note. — The amount mentioned as the grand 
total is, without doubt, rather under than 
overestimated. 



1 86 MANUAL OF THE 



GENERAL STATEMENT 

OF MONEY RECEIVED AND DISBURSED, 1876. 



Trustee Fund $6,022.15 

Sunday Collections 533-56 

Ladies' Association 330.00 

German Insurance Company's Donation 500.00 

Other Donations 40.00 

$7425-7i 

CHURCH TREASURER'S REPORT. 

Balance of Sabbath Collection after deducting Trustee Fund $976.84* 

Monthly Concert 74-7° 

Amount collected for Historical Catalogue 650.00 

Amount for books sold 148.40 

Special Poor Fund 10.50 

Foreign Missions 375-95 

Home Missions 425.76 

Buffalo General Hospital 137.00 

Ingleside Home 125.00 

Orphan Asylum 119.00 

"Woman's Christian Association 125.00 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 200.48 

Church Sabbath School 232.17 

Milnor Street Sabbath School 427.00 

Home for the Friendless 75-oo 

Sewing School (Milnor Street) 36.00 

Cordon of Temperance 88.02 

Young People's Bible Class. 151. 61 

$4,378.43 

Total $11,804.14 



* Whole Sabbath Collection, $1,476.84. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1 87 



SUMMARY OF CHURCH HISTORY. 

(Continued from page 182.) 



In consequence of repairs, cleaning, etc., made necessary by street improvements 
(see page 182), the church remained closed for four weeks, until Sunday, September 
17th. Our Pastor was out of the city most of the time. During this period, some 
of our people, anxious to keep up our Wednesday evening prayer service, met at 
the room of W. M. Knight, corner of Main and Erie streets, on the Wednesday 
evenings of five consecutive weeks, which meetings were blest to the spiritual good 
of those who attended them. Our Pastor was present at the last two, Sept. 6th 
and 13th. For the reason already stated, prayer meetings had been held — on the 
28th of June at the residence of John Otto, and July 5th at the residence of C. G. 
Brundige, at the Pastor's residence and at Knight's rooms ; also July 19th at our 
Pastor's and Knight's — making in all eight weeks in which prayer services were 
held in private houses. The Manual went to press about the time of the June Com- 
munion, which is noticed on page 182 as the 158th, but the names of those who 
united with us at that time, as also a number of those who united at the April Com- 
munion, are not in the historical catalogue, as it had been partially printed. We 
give in the supplement, the names of those who were omitted as members of the 
Church for April and June, and of those who have united with the Church since that 
time, to August 5, 1877. 

The next Communion season was observed August 6th, at which there was one 
admission ; and this, the 159th, will be ever memorable, as the last, at which our 
lamented Pastor attempted to officiate. It will also be remembered that our be- 
loved brother, Rev. Simeon H. Calhoun, D. D., of the Syria Mission and connected 
with the Theological School at Abeih, who was on a visit to his friends in this city, 
though an invalid, sat in the pulpit at our Pastor's request. 

Dr. Heacock delivered a short, earnest address, but when nearly through was 
seen to reel as if in a faint, then partially to recover, but presently to sink back 
upon his seat utterly helpless. He was soon, however, assisted (having, as he said, 
only momentarily lost his consciousness) into the chapel when he insisted that Dr. 
Calhoun should proceed to the observance of the ordinance, which he did, though 
to all appearance extremely feeble. At the close, the Church was dismissed with 
the benediction. No Sabbath School was held to-day. 

About 1 o'clock our Pastor, though nearly helpless, was taken home in a carriage, 
when he gradually improved, and in a few days was able to be about again. 

August 13th, Sunday — Rev. Robert Dick preached in the morning. No service 
in the evening. 

September 17th, Sunday — At the re-opening of the Church, Rev. Byron Sunder- 
land, of Washington, D. C, preached morning and evening. Our Pastor has been 
out of the city most of this time. He has been, and is, seriously troubled with 
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September 20th, Wednesday evening — Prayer meetings resumed in the Chapel. 

September 24th, Sunday — Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D., filled the pulpit, preaching 
morning and evening. 

October 1st, Sunday — Rev. A. P. Ripley, D. D., preached in the morning. Our 
Pastor being in the pulpit, announced that he should be absent two or three weeks 
at the Centennial, also, that the much loved and respected brother, Rev. C. P. H. 
Nason, who occupied the pulpit so acceptably during his protracted absence abroad, 
would preach for us on the next Sabbath. This is our regular Communion day but 
it was not observed. Our Pastor, however, assisted Rev. Mr. Riley at the residence 
of Mr. George C. Stearns, in a Communion service at the bed-side of Dr. Calhoun, 
who is apparently near the end of life. A few friends were invited and it was a 
solemn yet joyful occasion. After the observance of the ordinance, our dear 
brother Calhoun made a few remarks expressive of gratitude and full trust in the 
love and grace of Christ our Saviour. " This is the last Communion," said he, 
" I shall, in all probability, be permitted to partake with Christian friends. This 
is a blessed time, this is a blessed gospel, henceforth only the crown." This was 
also our Pastor's last Communion service. 

October 8th, Sunday — Preaching, morning and evening, by Rev. C. P. H. Nason, 
of Chelsea, Mass. 

October 15th, Sunday — Preaching, morning and evening, by Rev. Carl T. Chester, 
of Auburn, N. Y. 

October 22d, Sunday — Our Pastor preached in the morning and the Rev. Mr. 
Gilroy (Meth.), of Toronto, Ont, in the evening. 

October 25th, Wednesday evening — Our Pastor was present at the prayer meeting. 
October 29th, Sunday — Our Pastor preached morning and evening. 
November 1st, Wednesday evening — Our pastor was present and took charge. 

November 5th, Sunday — Rev. G. W. Coan, D. D., of the Persia Mission, preached 
in the morning. Our Pastor in the pulpit as a listener. In the evening Dr. 
Heacock preached his last sermon. His subject was " The Turkish Question." 

November 8th, Wednesday evening — Monthly concert. Mr. Henry Childs gave a 
very interesting report on Papal Europe. Mrs. Henry Childs also presented a 
paper on Woman's Foreign Missions, which was read by our Pastor, who being 
present, led in the exercises. As this was his last public service it seems to 
demand something more than a passing notice. 

Those who have followed closely our honored and loved Pastor through this 
the last year of his ministerial life could not fail to observe the deep anxiety and 
solicitude which he felt in his work for the Master. 

Laboring under severe bodily infirmity of which we knew but comparatively 
little, he seemed to bear up as best he could under the burden of great and press- 
ing responsibilities. He appreciated the great work before him ; he felt he had 
but little time in which, or strength wherewith, to do it. Mind worn and body 
worn by the already too nearly fatal encroachments of disease towards the seat of 
life, he stands before us in this his last effort in the cause of Christ, in conjunction 
with his people, is an object of tenderest sympathy. Every one who was present 
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the money ($100) necessary to support a young man in the Persia Mission, prof- 
fering one-third of the amount himself. And now that passed events have made 
plain so many things, the occasion becomes one of intense interest to us, tinged 
with holiest memories, which will long cluster around us, and cling to us, as we 
think of a life so noble and so good, spent, worn out for his people, for the Blessed 
Master's sake. 

November 12th, Sunday — Our Pastor had prepared a sermon to young men which 
he had hoped to preach to them this evening, but was unable to do so because of 
severe palpitation. The sermon has never been preached or given to the public. 
Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D., preached both morning and evening, at the latter time 
giving a discourse to young men, thus carrying out the purpose of our Pastor. 

November 19th, Sunday — Rev: Mr. Watterman, of Marshall, Mich., occupied 
the pulpit in the morning. Rev. W. Bird, of the Syria Mission, discoursed in 
the evening upon the difficulties of Missionary labor, its hopes and its encour- 
agements. 

November 25th, Saturday — Reports reach us to-day of the almost fatal illness of our 
beloved Pastor. He has suffered much for weeks past with palpitation in connec- 
tion with severe and painful stomach difficulties. His case became serious and 
alarming last night, and fears were entertained by his family that he would not 
survive through the night. A medical consultation to-day pronounces the case a 
dangerous enlargement of the heart. 

Sunday 26th — Rev. Carl T. Chester preached morning and evening. 

November 28th, Tuesday — The Elders and Trustees, in joint session, named 
the following persons as a committee on temporary pulpit supply : From the 
Session, John Otto and George L. Squier ; and Henry H. Hale, from the Board of 
Trustees. 

November 29th, Wednesday evening — Preparatory lecture was given by Rev. Mr. 
Washburn. 

December 3d, Sunday — Regular season of Communion (the 160th) ; Prof. Hopkins 
officiated, and preached in the evening. 

December 7th, 8th and 9th — Pastor still improving and comparatively comfort- 
able. He can walk around the room with a little assistance. 

December 10th, Sunday — Preaching both morning and evening by Prof. Hopkins. 

December 14th, Thursday — Rev. Simeon H. Calhoun, D. D., previously spoken of 
as having officiated at our August communion, has been sinking gradually, yet 
surely He has been confined to his bed for some weeks. Though consciously 
near life's close, he has been grandly patient, uncomplaining, hopeful, even cheer- 
ful, trusting fully in the love and grace of Christ. He passed to-day from the 
labors of life, to the rest and the rewards of heaven. 

December 16th, Saturday — Dr. Calhoun was buried at Forest Lawn to-day. It 
had been his wish to die, and to be buried on goodly Lebanon. 

December 17th, Sunday — Preaching by Prof. Hopkins. Subject appropriate to 
" Forefathers' Day," in the evening. Pastor comfortable, perhaps improving. 

December 24th, Sunday — Rev. Myron Adams, of Rochester, preached morning 
and evening. Pastor still comfortable. 



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1877. 

The past year (our great Centennial), has been in many respects a memorable 
one. It has been one of wide-spread and glorious revival of religion through the 
country, as well as in our own Church. And it is especially memorable to us 
as being the closing year in the labors of our esteemed and much lamented 
Pastor. 

During 1876 our Church observed five seasons of Communion. Our Pastor offi- 
ciated, Sunday, February 6, April 9, and June 4, and Dr. Calhoun August 6 
(Pastor taken sick just before going to the table). October omitted ; December 
3d, the 161st Communion, Prof. Hopkins officiated. 

The whole number of admissions during the year has been 58. On profession 
of their faith in Christ, 47 ; and 11 on letter from sister Churches. Thirty have 
been dismissed to other Churches during the year, and nine have died. 

1877. — January 7th — Rev. James A. Daly of Painesville, Ohio, preached both 
morning and evening. 

January 8th, Monday — Special prayer meeting, Rev. Mr. Daly in charge. 

January ith, Wednesday evening — The Annual Church Meeting was held in the 
chapel which was well filled. 

After the usual reports upon the condition of the Church had been made, the 
following communication from our Pastor was read by the chairman, Elder John 
Otto: 

Buffalo, Jan. 10, 1877. 

To the Members of Lafayette Street Church and Congregation : 

Dear Friends and Brethren: It is known to most, if not all of you, 
that I am still an invalid, and unable to resume the duties of my parish. 
Whether I shall ever be able to serve you again in the blessed work of the 
Christian ministry, is a question which it must take several weeks to settle. My 
heart's desire and prayer to God is, if it may be his will, that I may return to 
my work among you. My physician does not utterly forbid to me the hope of 
such restoration ; indulging these hopes and desires, I would wish, if agreeable 
to you, to provide some one to supply my present lack of service, rather than at 
this time, to propose any more serious change in our relation of pastor and 
people. If this also should meet your minds, I would desire that you would 
select some one to supply the parish for a few weeks till the question of my 
restoration may be more certainly determined. I cannot allow my congregation, 
already sufficiently burdened, to undertake any additional burden in carrying out 
this arrangement. These suggestions, and this proposal, dear brethren, are, how- 
ever, submitted to your judgment and decision, which ought not to be controlled 
by regard for any individual interest, but by what may seem to your minds best for 
the whole Church, whose perpetuity and prosperity are the highest wish of your 
affectionate pastor. 

G. W. HEACOCK. 
P. S. — Nothing would give me greater pleasure, if it were possible, than to see 
you individually, as you might call at my house, but my circulation is so feeble as 
to oppress me with a great sense of weakness and faintness, and I must deny my- 
self such a pleasure in hopes of a more speedy recovery. 

After the consideration due to the gravity of the occasion, Elder George L. 
Squier moved that a committee be appointed to prepare a response The chairman 
appointed George L. Squier, Henry H. Hale and Samuel N. Lawrence as such 
committee : to which, on motion of Mr. Lawrence, W. M. Knight was added. 



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January 12th, Friday evening — Special prayer meeting, Rev. Mr. Daly in charge ; 
at the close the following response to our Pastor's communication, which had been 
prepared by Elder George L. Squier, was approved by the committee, and Messrs. 
Squier and Hale were requested to present it to our Pastor. 

Beloved Pastor : 

At the annual meeting of your Church and Congregation, held on Wednesday 
evening last, the undersigned were appointed a committee in behalf of your peo- 
ple to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the tenth instant, and express to 
you their hearty assent to the proposition therein contained. The idea of any 
more serious change in their relations with their beloved Pastor is one that they 
cannot bring themselves to contemplate, and it is their desire that you should 
throw off all anxiety and care of your parish, and let nothing stand in the way of 
your speedy recovery. 

To this end, and in accordance with your suggestion, your people have appointed 
a committee to provide a temporary supply for your pulpit. 

We are also delegated to express to you the heartfelt sympathy of your people, 
and to assure you of their constant prayers that the Holy Spirit may be ever with 
you to strengthen, sustain and comfort you in your affliction, and the blessed 
Saviour may lovingly and gently lead you, and the merciful Father may speedily 
restore you to them with renewed health and vigor, and that you may be spared 
many years to break unto them the bread of life as of old. 

With assurances of our own deep sympathy for yourself and your family, and of 
our wishes and prayers for your speedy recovery, we are, dear Pastor, 

Affectionately yours, 

George L. Squier, 
Henry H. Hale, 
Samuel N. Lawrence, 
Willard M. Knight. 

February 3d, Saturday — In accordance with the proposition of Dr. Heacock, and 
with his approval, Rev. James A. Daly was engaged by the committee to supply 
the pulpit until the first of May next. 

February 4th, Sunday — Sacrament of the Lord's Supper observed to-day. Rev. 
James A. Daly officiated. Dr. Heacock rode out two or three times during the 
past week. 

February 14th, Wednesday evening — The Church voted, after considerable discus- 
sion, to give the Sabbath morning contribution (benevolent fund) to the trustees 
(after providing for the poor fund and Sabbath Schools), toward the extinguishment 
of the floating debt of the church, which had been incurred in consequence of 
extraordinary expenses during the past few years. 

April 1st, Sunday — Regular season of Communion (163d), Rev. James A. Daly, 
officiated. Seven persons were admitted to church fellowship, six on profession, 
one on letter. 

April 4th, Wednesday evening — Our Pastor handed in to the session his letter of 
resignation. An informal meeting of the session and trustees was held at the close 
of the prayer service, and after some deliberation adjourned to meet at Elder 
Otto's office, on Saturday at 4 P. M. 

April 7th, Saturday 4 p. M. — Adjourned meeting of session and trustees. Elder 
Otto was requested to read the Pastor's letter of resignation to the Church and 
congregation, at the close of the service to-morrow (Sunday) morning. 



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April 8th, Sunday — At the close of the service, our Pastor's letter of resignation was 
read, and notice given that a meeting of the congregation would be held Monday- 
evening, April 9th, in the chapel, to take such action in the matter as should be 
thought advisable. 

April 9th, Monday evening — A largely attended meeting of the Church and con- 
gregation convened in the chapel at half-past seven. Elder John Otto, being called 
to the chair, opened the subject in the following words : 

Brethren and Friends : We have gathered here this evening, pursuant to a 
notice publicly read in your hearing yesterday, to consider a letter of resignation 
tendered this Church by our Pastor. Such an event is a notable one in the history 
of any Church. It is pre-eminently so in the history of this Church and congrega- 
tion, and the same may with propriety be said in the spiritual history of every mem- 
ber of this society. Hitherto this people have known but one shepherd, and our 
Pastor has known but one flock. The Christian ties that have bound us to each 
other for a generation have only grown stronger and stronger, and to-night they 
are stronger and more tender than ever. But God in His wisdom has seen fit to lay 
aside our Pastor from active service, and we, perchance, may never again hear the 
sound of the Gospel from his lips. At such a juncture we need more than human 
wisdom. We need divine aid. Let us, then, before proceeding upon the duties of 
the evening, look to God for His blessing and guidance. 

Prayer was then offered by Elder Charles H. Baker, after which the chairman 
read the following : 

LETTER OF RESIGNATION. 

To the Members of the Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church and Congregation : 

Dear Friends and Brethren : The time, it seems to me, has fully come for 
me to tender my resignation of the Pulpit and Pastorate which I have so long held 
among you, and the labors of which have been the precious occupation and privi- 
lege of my life. I thank God that He called me, as I trust, to the Christian minis- 
try, and has enabled me to give to it the best years of my life. I have no regrets 
that my life was given to such a calling. Had I another life to offer, it should be 
cheerfully given to the same office, only with a deeper and more spiritual conse- 
cration. 

I have delayed long the step which I now take, because it seems to me its gravity 
and solemnity demanded deliberation, but the Providence of God seems clearly to 
point to the duty of my laying down all the obligations and responsibilities of my 
ministry among you. 

I therefore ask you to unite with me in an application to the Presbytery of 
Buffalo, to grant at its earliest convenience, a dissolution of the pastoral relation 
between us. With only the pleasantest and most grateful memories of my long 
association with you, and with the most earnest wishes for your spiritual peace and 
prosperity as individuals and as a congregation, praying that long years and those 
of greater activity, usefulness and enlargement than all the past, may attend this 
dear Church, under the labors of a new Pastor, I remain affectionately and truly 
your friend and brother, 

G. W. HEACOCK. 

Buffalo, April 4, 1877. 

A committee of three was then appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the 
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retiring, the chair called for the reading of the report of the Committee on Pulpit 
Supply. The report was read by Henry H. Hale, and is as follows : 

REPORT OF THE PULPIT COMMITTEE. 

To the Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church and Congregation : 

Your Committee for Supply of Pulpit ask leave to report that a joint meeting of 
the Session and Board of Trustees was called, and met at the chapel November 
2Sth, for the purpose of raising a committee to act for the Church and congrega- 
tion in supplying a preacher and acting-pastor during the period of the sickness 
and disability of our own beloved Pastor, or until such time as he should deem it 
best to ask the Church to take definite action for a more permanent supply. The 
result of the joint meeting was the election of a committee of three, consisting of 
John Otto, George L. Squier and Henry H. Hale, of which Mr. Otto was made 
chairman. At the annual meeting of the Church, held January 10, 1877, the 
same persons were continued as the Committee of Supply by the vote of the Church. 
Your committee was appointed in response to the wish very generally expressed 
by the Church and congregation, that there might not only be a preacher for the 
Sabbath, but a Pastor for the week — one who would lead us in the weekly services, 
visit the sick, minister to the afflicted, and perform the last sad offices of the burial 
service. In seeking such a minister for a short period of time, we thought it provi- 
dential that the Rev. Mr. Daly could be secured temporarily for such service. 
After consulting with the Pastor and a number of the Church and congrega- 
tion, we made an engagement with him extending for a period of four months 
from January I, 1877. We at first expected to make the term of three months only, 
but it was made one month longer at the request of Dr. Heacock, and for his own 
sake. While seeking a good man as a minister for so brief a period, we have to 
acknowledge the kind offices of Rev. A. H. Plumb and other friends and well- 
wishers to our Church. During the latter part of December, and prior to the 
time limited by Rev. Dr. Hopkins as the period during which he would preach 
for us, viz., during December, we had engaged a supply for the pulpit for the sec- 
ond and third Sabbaths in January. Mr. Daly was engaged in December for the 
first Sabbath in January only, and his further continuance by the request of so 
many of the Church and congregation necessitated the canceling of his engage- 
ments previously made for service in Boston, and also of our previous engagement 
with another minister for the second and third Sabbaths in January. For the best 
and fairest testimony of the ability and success with which Mr. Daly has performed 
his pulpit and parish labors among us, we have only to refer to the largely-increas- 
ing attendance on the Sabbath morning service, and the Wednesday evening prayer 
meeting, with the steady increase of interest in the latter on the part of the mem- 
bers of the Church, and an increasing interest in the hearing of Gospel truth so 
ably, clearly, simply and forcibly presented, as to satisfy, instruct and spiritually 
feed mature minds, and yet to be perfectly understood by the young. In the for- 
mation of a large and permanent Committee of Supply for pulpit and pastoral 
work, we trust the Church and congregation will pledge to them a generous confi- 
dence and readiness to accept their decision and judgment, realizing the great diffi- 
culty of securing any minister to acceptably succeed a Pastor of thirty years' 
service, and one of so great ability and grandness of soul as it has been our privi- 
lege to possess. We trust that the danger of the present situation, resulting in 
divided counsels and opinions, will be clearly seen and avoided, and that by mutual 
concession to the opinions and wishes of others, by a firm adherence to all that is 
right in matters of principle, and by a steady determination to cheerfully abide by 
the decision of the majority as fairly expressed by vote of the Church and congre- 
gation, our safety, perpetuity and prosperity as a Church, and our spiritual growth 
as Christians may be guaranteed. That such may be the result of the efforts and 
decisions of the new committee, is the sincere wish of your brethren. 

John Otto, 
George L. Squier, 
Henry H. Hale, 

.Committee. 



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The Committee on Resolutions now came in and presented the following preamble 
and resolutions : 

Whereas, The Rev. Dr. Heacock, born and reared in this city, never having had 
a home elsewhere, at the youthful age of twenty-three started this Church enterprise 
under the most discouraging circumstances, and has remained its Pastor during a 
period of nearly thirty-two years, giving to it his best days, his best thoughts and 
experience ; and 

Whereas, The Lord has blessed his ministry until his Church, from the most 
feeble and humble beginnings, now outnumbers that of any of his denomination in 
the city ; and 

Whereas, He has defended with his powerful intellect every cause which he con- 
sidered right, whether popular or not, always lifting his voice in favor of liberty 
to those who were in bondage, when to do so was to brave the strongest public 
sentiment, sympathizing with all the interests of humanity in the darkest days 
of the war for the Union, " never ceasing to encourage our faith that loyalty and 
freedom were sure to triumph over treason and slavery;" making great sacrifices 
for this Church when he had received many and flattering invitations from churches 
in different parts of the country with offers of large and tempting salaries, over- 
looking all ambitious motives and remaining with this Church in its weakness and 
poverty ; and 

Whereas, Remembering that he has given up his whole life, with its crowded 
and affluent but exhausting labors, to our welfare ; that he has baptized our chil- 
dren, married our young men and maidens, comforted our sick and buried our dead, 
for more than a generation ; that he has been instrumental, through the blessing of 
God, in leading many of us to Christ ; that by his Christian guidance and teaching, 
by his life and example, by his splendid abilities and wisdom, he has, under the 
blessing of God, made this Church a power for good in this city and the land ; that 
by his love and tenderness, by his patience and forbearance, by his generosity and 
great-heartedness, he has won the profound respect and deep affection of every one 
of his people, young or old ; remembering the strong and loving hold he has upon 
the city of his birth, upon all the Churches of this vicinity, and indeed everywhere 
and upon every one who ever had the good fortune of his acquaintance — remem- 
bering all these things and a thousand others that time fails us to recite — we do 
hereby 

Resolved, That we cannot bring ourselves to contemplate the possibility that the 
relations now existing between us as Pastor and people shall ever be severed except 
by death, and that we most earnestly request him to recall his letter asking for a 
dissolution of the pastoral relation between us. 

Resolved, That we ask of him the privilege of selecting, calling, and settling a 
colleague Pastor who shall be competent to attend to all the active duties of the 
pastorate of this Church, with the understanding that the senior Pastor shall be 
released from all duties and obligations during his present illness. 

Resolved, That we cannot take any action towards cutting ourselves off from our 
endearing relations, so that we cannot have his prayers and kind thoughts and 
wishes towards us as his people, and we towards him as our Pastor. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be engrossed upon the records of the Church, 
and a copy of them be furnished to our Pastor. 

Henry Childs, 
L. L. Lewis, 
George L. Squier, 

Committee. 



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Remarks were made in favor of these resolutions, together with warm expres- 
sions of respect and affection toward our Pastor, by Mr. Henry Childs, who moved 
their adoption ; by Hon. Loran L. Lewis, who seconded the motion ; and by Dr. E. 
N. Brush. No report has been preserved of the remarks of these gentleman, but all 
them while considering the uncertainty of Dr. Heacock's life, whether it would 
be spared for weeks, months or years, yet hoping that he might long remain with 
us as the object of our love, whether able to perform any pastoral duties or not, 
expressed the feeling that his connection with the Church as its Pastor, must 
never be dissolved except by death. Mr. Henry H. Hale spoke as follows : 

Mr. Chairman : I came here to-night to listen, not to speak. I will only say 
that I most heartily approve the resolutions which have been presented. There is 
but one side to the question as it presents itself to my mind. It is always safe to 
do right, never safe or expedient to do otherwise. This is simply a duty which we 
owe as a Church to one who has been so long time our Pastor. Our relation is 
with him personally ; it makes no difference whether he has a family or not, it is 
simply our duty to him as a life-long Pastor. I consider his relation to us as much 
the father of this family as the Pastor of this Church. To dissolve the relation of 
Pastor and people is to say to him " you are no more the father of this family." The 
act would be as unnatural and ungrateful as the attempt on the part of a household 
of children to dissolve the relation between them and their own father. The 
thought cannot for a moment be entertained ; I do not believe it is entertained in 
this assembly. The question has been asked me: "Would not the acceptance of 
Dr. Heacock's letter of resignation be an act of kindness to him, by relieving him of 
all care and anxiety concerning his Church and Parish ?" In reply I said, "The pre- 
sentation of the letter has relieved him of all responsibility." That now rests with 
us as a Church. On the Helper will rest all the burden of work and responsibility 
for pulpit and parish. We shall honor and respect him in his place for his work 
and spirit, while at the same time we love and honor our Pastor for his own 
sake and for his work's sake, finished though perchance it may be. But if, by God's 
goodness to him, and to us, we shall be permitted to see him again in the Church 
or in the pulpit and hear his voice again in counsel, in prayer or benediction, he 
will still be our Pastor. We will honor him by our love so long as God spares 
his life, and honor ourselves by so doing. 

Followed by Elder George L. Squier : 

Mr. Chairman : I do not rise for the purpose of making any extended remarks, 
but simply to express my hearty concurrence with the resolutions that have just 
been offered, and my hope that they will pass without a dissenting voice. 

To me the idea that this Church could consent to sever its relations with our 
beloved Pastor because of his affliction is so repugnant that I cannot believe that a 
single member of the Church or society can assent to such a proposition or harbor 
such a thought. I believe we are all of a mind on this question, and that the reso- 
lutions will have our unanimous vote. 

While sitting here listening to the expressions of kindness and love of his people 
for him, an interview which I was privileged to have with our dear Pastor some three 
months ago has been brought vividly to my mind, and I trust it will not be deemed 
a breach of confidence to mention a few words that he then uttered, though they 
were not intended for the public ear. They show how strongly his love still goes 
out towards his people. It was before he had fully given up all hope of ever again 
being able to occupy his pulpit. Speaking of his desire to meet and worship with 
us, even if he could not occupy his pulpit, he said : " If I can only crawl down 
there into one of the pews, and sit with my dear people, and be permitted to wor- 
ship God with them, even if I cannot open my mouth, I will thank God for that 
blessing." And again he said- "So long as I live I shall retain my connection 
with this dear Church as a member, if I can do nothing more." These words show 
how his heart goes out in love to this people, and nothing ought to dissolve our 



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relations with him as our Pastor till God himself severs them. He has given up 
his life and all his great talents to us, overtaxing himself for our welfare. His 
great heart is what has killed him. He has worn himself out, and spent his life 
and strength in doing good to others, and we, if need be, should be willing to give 
up everything for him. 

Followed by John L. Alberger and John Gowans, of whose remarks we have no 
reports. 

Elder Charles H. Baker then spoke to this effect : 

Mr. Chairman: There is nothing lower in the nature of man than ingratitude ; 
and an ungrateful man not only debases himself, but is unworthy the esteem and 
confidence of society. 

For us to say to the man who has worn out his life — and a wonderful life it has 
been — for our sakes, and in our service, now that he is unable to do more for us, 
" We don't want anything more to do with you," will be simply ungrateful. 

It is needless for me, or any one to rehearse the many acts of self-sacrifice which 
he has manifested in his unselfish love for us. They are too familiar to need men- 
tion. But we do know that many times, when half sick and barely able to attend 
to his duties, when he should have taken care of himself, he has neglected to do so, 
that he might minister to our sick and dying, or speak words of sympathy and 
consolation to the troubled and sorrowing, as no other man could. And not 
only this, but he has been as generous with his means where it was necessary. 

Remembering all these things, Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that it will be posi- 
tive ingratitude for us to accept our Pastor's resignation. 

Mr. C. M. Horton then remarked as follows : 

I heartily approve the resolutions offered, and do not believe that objection will 
be made by a single member of our Church ; nor do I believe that Dr. Heacock 
wishes to sever his connection with us, but, like a parent wishing to aid and assist 
a son for his future welfare, and not wishing in any manner to become burthensome 
to him, so our pastor wishes only our good, and desires not to become burthen- 
some to us. It must be a source of great gratification to our Pastor to know we 
do not view him as burthensome to us, and therefore we decline to accept his 
resignation. 

When Mr. Horton had concluded his remarks, William Wade spoke as follows : 

I came to Buffalo in April, 1833. The first church I attended regularly was 
the old Park Church. I commenced going to Sunday-school there about the year 
1838 or 1839, the time Mr. Angier was Pastor. 

On November 7, 1841, there was organized a temperance society, called "The 
Juvenile Temperance Society of the Park Church Sabbath School." N. B. Palmer 
was Superintendent ; Caleb McCready, President, and Seymour Smith, Secretary. 
Each pupil in the Sunday School received a very nicely-printed pledge, with his or 
her name and the names of the officers written on it. I received one. I have that 
pledge at the present time, and it has never been violated by drink. Truly we can 
say of N. B. Palmer, that the righteous die, and their works do follow them. 
Caleb McCready was the first boy-member of the Park Church. Seymour Smith 
was a good boy, now an honored citizen of Syracuse. So much for the old Park 
Church. We continued on until the Rev. Mr. Heacock came in. It was in the 
early part of his ministry, while preaching in the basement of the old church, that 
he taught me the way to Jesus ; and I have been an humble yet faithful follower 
ever since, having never attended any other church. 

He has christened the most of my father's family. He has christened six children 
of my own, and buried two. He has done some marrying in the family, besides he 
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over my mother's remains that was truly great. He eulogized her Christian virtues 
and patient endurance, under long and severe illness, in a manner which will never 
be forgotten. 

With all this debt on our part, we could not vote to accept his resignation as 
long as he shall live. 

Mr. Charles G. Brundige closed the remarks of the evening in the following 
words : 

It is not because I imagine there is an individual in this assembly so insensible 
to the many sacred and tender recollections clustering around Dr. Heacock's long 
pastorate, as to be willing to entertain for a moment the proposition contained in 
this letter, that I rise to address you. But I wish simply to add my testimony to 
that which has been already given, of the strong and unabated love which exists 
between us as pastor and people, and to protest that the bonds which unite us 
should be severed only by the hand of death. 

Thirty years ago I came to this city, bearing letters to Dr. Lord's church. Form- 
erly he had been my pastor, I had been converted under his preaching, by him I 
had been received into the Church, I was strongly attached to him, and I did not 
dream of placing myself under any other than his pastoral care. But circum- 
stances, which I need not now mention, often caused me to turn in here to worship. 
Dr. Heacock impressed me at the first. I began to admire, then to love him. I 
soon became convinced that here was my place of worship, and here my field of 
Christian labor ; and I have never regretted that I yielded to that conviction. 

And during the long years that have since followed, the hand of God often has 
been heavy upon me, the cup of affliction often has been pressed to my lips, and I 
have been compelled to drink it to the very dregs. And it was at those times, 
when my dear ones were writhing on beds of pain, or lying cold in death, that 
those tender ministrations of consolation, for which Dr. Heacock is so remarkable, 
soothed and cheered and strengthened me. It was these gentle offices of love and 
sympathy that have bound my heart to him by ties that can never be loosened. 
While I admire his eloquence, and reverence him for his godliness of character, I 
love him for his great sympathizing heart. Add to all this, the recollection of those 
seasons of refreshing from on high which so often have been vouchsafed to this 
people — when in his appeals to the unconverted and his encouragement to Christians 
he appeared like the very prophet of God — and it will not appear extravagant for 
me to say that while Dr. Heacock's life is spared, I can call no other man my 
Pastor. 

At the conclusion of the foregoing remarks, a vote was taken by rising, and the 
resolutions were unanimously passed. 

On motion of Hon. L. L. Lewis, a committe of three — L. L. Lewis, Henry Childs 
and George L. Squier — was appointed by the chair to deliver a copy of these reso- 
lutions to our Pastor, and to learn his further pleasure. 

Mr. John L. Alberger then moved that a committee of ten be named by the 
chair to supply the Pulpit, until further action should become necessary. The 
chairman (Mr. Otto) named the committee in the following order: George L. 
Squier, Cornelius M. Horton, Samuel N. Lawrence, Loran L. Lewis, John R. 
Linen, John Lapey, Henry Childs, John L. Alberger, W. G. Bancroft, Edwin A. 
Shaw, and on motion of John Gowans, John Otto was added thereto. 

On Tuesday, April 10th, the committee called on Dr. Heacock to deliver to him 
a copy of the resolutions passed by the meeting on the previous evening. They 
found him weak, and laboring for breath, but cheerful. When they presented to 
him the resolutions, with his eyes suffused with tears, he said that he had seen in 
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his heart was filled with gratitude to them for this additional token of their love, 
so much beyond his desert, and it made him wish that he could recover sufficiently 
to repay them by more earnest and consecrated service. He added, that he would, 
as soon as his strength should permit, prepare a reply, to be read to his people, 
expressing his deep gratitude for this tender manifestation of their regard for him, 
and he hoped to have it ready to be read on the coming Sabbath. 

But his strength gradually failed, and he was never able to carry out this desire 
to express in writing his gratitude to his people for their action in this matter. 

As an additional indication of the feeling of our Pastor, we insert the following 
account furnished by a member of the Church who was on intimate terms with 
him : 

On the afternoon of Saturday, April 7th, a joint meeting of the Session and 
Trustees was held at Mr. Otto's office, at which time the Pastor's letter of resigna- 
tion was read and all present said that it must not be accepted. In order to relieve, 
as far as possible, any anxiety which Dr. Heacock might feel during the pendency 
of the action of the Church upon his letter of resignation, I called to report to him 
the warm and unanimous expression of feeling manifested in that meeting. While 
telling him of it he laid his head back and the tears rolled down his cheeks. I 
said, " Doctor, do not feel badly over this matter, it is all right." " Oh ! " he said, 
" do not misunderstand these tears ; they are tears of joy over this new expression 
of the love of my dear people." 

On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 10th, I called on Dr. Heacock with a copy of 
the morning paper containing an account of the action taken by the Church the 
evening previous relative to his letter of resignation. I found him in good spirits. 
He had carefully read the published report, and with great depth of feeling and 
earnestness expressed his grateful, tearful thanks to his Church and people. He 
said, " I am unworthy of such love, but it is none the less grateful to me." During 
the interview he talked freely about his Church and expressed his anxiety for its 
perpetuity and prosperity, and, also, as to the kind of Preacher and Pastor his 
people would select to minister to them. He said, " Churches are not built up and 
edified by finely-written sermons nor by pulpit eloquence alone ; that matter is 
solved on a minister's knees. It is the spiritual-minded man, the good man, whose 
preaching tells most in a period of years. I have tried it both ways. Eloquence 
and literary merit, of themselves, do not satisfy the spiritual wants of a Church, and 
they are not effective means of bringing sinners to repentance and submission to 
Christ. That work is done by gospel truth, and he who most clearly presents it, 
and most fully feels its power on his own heart, is the most effective and successful 
preacher. Such a man I hope my people will select to minister to them in my 
place." 

April 15th, Sunday — Our Pastor's condition remained about the same to this 
date, though apparently sinking gradually until yesterday when he appeared much 
worse and to-day seems near his end. 

April 18th, Wednesday — Our Pastor was very low Monday, had fainting spells 
Tuesday, but some better to-day. He cannot sit up, and sees none of his people. 

April 21st, Saturday, 4 p. M. — The Committee on Pulpit Supply met at the office 
of Elder John Otto, when Mr. Otto was chosen Chairman, and John R. Linen ap- 
pointed Secretary. It was then resolved to request Prof. Samuel M. Hopkins, D. D., 
of Auburn Theological Seminary, to supply the pulpit during the month of May. 

April 22d, Sunday — Our Pastor has less pain and seems more tranquil. 

April 24th, Tuesday — Pastor little more comfortable yesterday and to-day, still 
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April 29th, Sunday — Rev. James A. Daly concluded this day his most acceptable 
labors among us as temporary supply, having, during the four months in which he 
so ably preached the Word to this people, by God's grace, wrought a good work in 
the hearts of many, which will cause him long to be tenderly remembered by them. 
Our Pastor more comfortable, though extremely weak and nervous ; none besides his 
family and physician are permitted to see him. 

May 2d, Wednesday evening — It is thought that Dr. Heacock cannot survive 
through the night. 

The following, from a daily paper, gives a graphic account of the closing hours 
of his life : 

Early Thursday morning it became generally known that he was rapidly pass- 
ing away, and it was scarcely thought that he would live through the night. During 
the afternoon, Rev. Mr. Wood of the Central Presbyterian Church, called and 
offered prayer, to which the prostrated man was able to respond with an Amen. 
During the same afternoon his attending physician, Dr. J. F. Miner, asked him if 
there-was anything he wanted, and his answer was : " 1 want nothing more but to 
see the face of God and be at rest." That night he succeeded in communicating 
with the members of his family from time to time, and on Friday morning he, with 
great difficulty, made known his desire to have sung the following hymn : 

Father ! whate'er of earthly bliss, 

Thy sov'reign will denies, 
Accepted at Thy throne of grace, 

Let this petition rise : 

Give me a calm, a thankful heart, 

From every murmur free ; 
The blessings of Thy grace impart, 

And make me live to Thee. 

Let the sweet hope that I am Thine, 

My life and death attend, 
Thy presence through my journey shine, 

And crown my journey's end. 

"When the singing of this hymn was concluded he exclaimed, with unexpected 
energy, " The victory is won ! The victory is won !" Through Friday and 
Saturday he passed with only such changes as indicated exhaustion of the vital 
forces, meanwhile making his wishes understood from time to time. Sunday morn- 
ing, at his request, the following hymn was sung : 

Burst, ye emerald gates, and bring 

To my raptured vision, 
All the ecstatic joys that spring 

From the bright Elysian : 
Lo ! we lift our longing eyes, 

Break, ye intervening skies ! 
Sons of righteousness, arise, 

Ope the gates of Paradise. 

Floods of everlasting light ! 

Freely flash before Him ; 
Myriads, with intense delight, 

Constantly adore Him ; 
Angel trumps resound His fame ; 

Lutes of lucid gold proclaim 
All the music of his name ; 

Heaven echoing the theme. 

Four and twenty elders rise 

From their princely station ; 
Shout His glorious victories, 

Sing the great salvation ; 
Cast their crowns before His th'one, 

Cry, in reverential tone, 
Glory be to God alone, 

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Hark ! the thrilling symphonies 

Seem, methinks, to sieze us ! 
Join we, too, the holy lays — 

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus ! 
Sweetest sound in Seraph's song, 

Sweetest note on mortal tongue, 
Sweetest carol ever sung — 

Jesus, Jesus, flow along !" 

During the singing of the last stanza, at ten minutes before 7, Sunday morning, 
May 6, he entered upon his rest. The effect upon the community, as well as upon 
his own people, of the announcement of the death of Dr. Heacock is shown by the 
following extracts from the daily papers. The following is from the Courier of the 
morning of the 7th : 

At Lafayette Street Church. — The fact of Dr. Heacock's death did not 
become generally known until shortly after the hour appointed for morning service. 
At the church, when the congregation were gathering for worship, the majority 
were quite unaware that their loved and honored pastor had breathed his last ; and 
although the melancholy event was looked for, the blow was painfully telling, and 
was like a thunderbolt to many as they came in sight of the church door and saw 
the simple crape that told the sad story. One lady was so much overcome that she 
sank down upon the steps of the church. Within the edifice, draped as it was 
in the symbols of mourning, the scene was solemn and impressive. 

The Services were conducted by Rev. Samuel M. Hopkins, a brother-in-law of 
the deceased, and consisted of an introductory prayer, followed by the reading of 
parts of the eleventh chapter of John and the third chapter of the Epistle to the 
Thessalonians. After which Prof. Hopkins read from various detached memoranda 
kept by the family, an account of the last experiences and testimonies of Dr. Hea- 
cock, which expressed in various forms his firm and unwavering trust in the prom- 
ises of the Gospel. In concluding his remarks, he quoted the following lines of 
Longfellow : 

" And when the morn, in all its state, 
Illumed the eastern skies, 
He passed through glory's opening gate, 
And walked in Paradise." 

The hymn of the late Dr. Muhlenberg, " I would not live alway," was next sung, 
and Rev. Dr. Hopkins then offered the following prayer : 

O Lord, our God, we thank Thee for the life of this Thy servant, and for all the 
influences that surrounded his early years ; that Thou didst bring him early to con- 
secrate his powers to the ministry of Christ ; that Thou didst call him to exercise 
those powers in this city — the city of his birth — and so long and so successfully to 
continue that ministry here. We thank Thee, O Lord, for the continued blessing 
that has attended his labors, and their influence elsewhere. Many, O Lord, here 
present can thank Thee that Thou hast blessed the services of Thy servant to them, 
when the waters of sorrow and bitterness rolled over them. There are those here 
who have been led to Christ and to a better life by his guiding hand ; many who 
have been strengthened, many to whom he has been a guide by Thy blessing. We 
bless Thee, O God, that the life of Thy servant was indeed an epistle read and 
known of all men, to the honor of Thy name, and that his passing away was not 
as when a common man falls. We bless Thee that he was permitted to depart so 
peacefully, and to feel Thy strengthening hand to the last, and may we comfort our- 
selves with these thoughts. Now, O Lord, we commend to Thee this people, this con- 
gregation, to whom he has been for so many years a spiritual guide, counselor and 
leader. Be very gracious to the family whom Thou hast bereaved, and comfort 
them out of Thy Word. And may we all be enabled to have our loins girt about 
with truth, and our lamps trimmed and burning, so that when Thou dost call us, 
when our work is done, we may be made meet for a place with the just made per- 
fect. Hear Thou our prayer, O Lord, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 

The benediction was pronounced and the congregation dismissed. 

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The following appeared in the Courier of Monday 7th : 

Milnor Street Sabbath School. — At the Milnor Street Chapel — which is a 
mission of the Lafayette Street Church — the Sabbath School services yesterday 
afternoon were in memory of Dr. Heacock. Mr. John Gowans, the superintendent, 
opened the school, and singing and reading the Scriptures were the first in order. 
Mr. C. G. Brundige, Superintendent of the Lafayette Street Church Sabbath School, 
offered prayer, and Mr. Gowans announced the death of Dr. Heacock, and spoke 
with great feeling. After singing again, brief and touching tributes to the memory 
of the good man were rendered by Messrs. Edwin G. Sawn, Joshua Parker, Henry 
J. Pierce, Willard W. Brown and Henry H. Hale. The chapel was appropriately 
draped, and a portrait of the deceased hung at one end of the room. 

Other Churches. — At most of the churches in the city, yesterday morning, the 
death of Dr. Heacock was announced by the Pastors in fitting terms, and received 
with unmistakable evidences of sorrow. 



Ministers' Union Memorial Service. — Last evening a Union Memorial 
Service, arranged by the Pastors of the various Presbyterian Churches of the city, 
was held at the North Presbyterian Church, and long before the appointed hour the 
audience-room was thronged. The pulpit was occupied by the Pastor, Rev. W.ol- 
cott Calkins, Rev. D. R. Frazer, of the First Church, Rev. Charles Wood, of the 
Central, Rev. William Reed, of Calvary, and Rev. W. H. Crabbe, of the United 
Presbytei-ian. 

The services opened with the singing by the choir and congregation, of the 
hymn commencing 

" There is a land of pure delight, 
Where saints immortal reign." 

After the reading of the twenty-third Psalm, and an appropriate prayer by the 
Rev. W. H. Crabbe, the hymn, " Jesus, lover of my soul," was rendered by a quar- 
tette from the First Presbyterian Church Choir. 

Rev. Wolcott Calkins, D. D., 

then addressing the congregation, said it was perhaps unnecessary to explain the 
occasion of calling them together, yet it was important to state that the present 
services were not intended to take the place of the regular funeral or memorial 
services of their departed friend. The meeting had been called without any con- 
sultation with the bereaved family, as a spontaneous expression by the broken circle 
of Presbyterian ministers of their esteem for their friend, brother and co-laborer, 
and to testify to the affliction felt in the common loss to all. It was not intended 
that any preaching should be done to those present. Their thoughts were doubtless 
in that home shrouded in sorrow, where the form of him they loved so well was 
lying cold in death. The response to the call showed how deep an impression had 
been made upon the community by the loss of Dr. Heacock. Perhaps it should be 
said that the gathering had been prompted by a love for the lamented dead, and a 
desire to ask God for mercy in the loss incurred and sorrow experienced. At the 
burial of Raphael, his unfinished picture of the " Transfiguration " was carried in 
the procession, and it occurred to the speaker, since the appointment of the meeting, 
that there was something of the nature of an unfinished picture in the last words of 
Dr. Heacock as they dropped from his dying lips. They could never be presented 
at a more appropriate time, and he would therefore ask the Rev. Mr. Hopkins 
to give them. 

In complying with this request, 

Rev. Samuel M. Hopkins, D. D. 

said it was well to hear a few specimens of the last words and sentiments expressed 
by great and good men in the prospect of death. That Dr. Heacock was a good 
man none would deny, and he believed that there were many who would admit his 
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influence those before him in such a belief. All who knew the deceased, his life 
and his characteristics, would readily understand that he did not shrink in the expe- 
rience of his approaching end. With these few remarks, the reverend gentleman 
proceeded to present the following epitome of what had transpired during Dr. 
Heacock's last hours : 

Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock died at seven o'clock Sunday morning, May 6th, in 
the fifty-sixth year of his age. 

The following are some of the expressions taken down from his lips within a 
short time — mostly within a few hours of his death. They are disconnected, and 
were repeated by him at different times, and over and over again : 

A fortnight ago he began to use a preparation of opium vaporia to control the 
nervous excitement from which he suffered. Later, he was unwilling to use it for 
fear of beclouding his mind. He said he wished no remedy employed that would 
confuse his views of the Gospel promises. He wanted his mind clear to rest in the 
love and grace of God. Accordingly, he had for some days, partly through physical 
disability, taken nothing of the sort, and his mind was apparently clear, whenever 
he was waking, to the end. His power of utterance was greatly affected, except at 
intervals. Many times he only responded to the repetition of passages of Scripture, 
or suggestions of hope and triumph, by saying, " Yes, that's so," &c. But he often 
uttered his own feelings in clearly expressed language. He had said some time ago 
that he did not think it was necessary to bear any dying testimony to the Gospel. 
Still his feelings would break out; and, without effort or affectation, he again and 
again testified to the love of Christ and the salutary power of the Gospel. These 
were so numerous that only a scanty specimen of them can be given. 

He had been, as is well known to all, a diligent student of the Scriptures, and of 
no portion more than that great Christian argument, the Epistle to the Romans; 
but what he wanted now was not theology, but Christ. " The simplest truths of 
the Gospel," he said, " are what I now rest on. I cannot grasp the Epistle to the 
Romans. Thy rod and Thy staff, that's enough ; the love of Christ, that passeth 
all knowledge." 

Over and over again, many times, in varied forms of expression, he spoke of the 
" preciousness of Christ ;" " He is my all ; the Rock of my salvation ; upon Him 
I rest absolutely, securely ; He will never leave me ; He will never let me perish." 

As his physical weakness increased, and it became more and more difficult 
for him to move himself, or even to take the slightest nourishment through his 
almost locked teeth, he prayed again and again for strength to endure to the end. 
" Give me strength, O Father," he cried, and then he added, "Dear Father, help 
me to glorify Thee here or hereafter, just as is Thy will ; Thy will, not mine be 
done." This he repeated in substance many times over ; " Christ is my all ! First, 
midst, last, and without end." 

He said imperfectly, but emphatically, that he hoped he should preach Christ 
more effectually from his death-bed, than he ever had during his life. 

It is about a fortnight since he definitely contemplated a fatal result to his illness ; 
and he had some apprehension that the actual experience of death might be pro- 
tracted and distressing. He said, " You are praying that my life maybe prolonged. 
Pray harder than you ever did for anything, that I may be released ; your prayers 
hinder me ! Let me go ! " 

But he had very strong affections and friendships ; no man had a more devoted 
family, or more enthusiastic friends ; no Pastor had a more warmly attached People, 
or kinder and more appreciating brethren in the ministry. He had the warmest 
affection for them all. On one occasion, while suffering greatly, his mind turned to 
the thought of how they were suffering with him. He said, " I love all my dear 
kindred ; my dear people ; my dear brethren in the ministry, and in all the 
churches." 

These are but few, of many similar utterances within the last few days. 

Saturday evening it became more plain that he was, gradually but steadily, draw- 
ing near his end. His mind was still perfectly clear, his hearing natural, his sight 
partly glazed, but still able to distinguish the faces of the friends who clustered 
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was laid back in the bed from which he had been partly lifted, and said, " Good 
bye." His physician said, "Not quite yet, Doctor ; not to-night ; but very soon." 
As if accepting the correction, Dr. Heacock said, " Then good nighty He had a 
few more brief words to say: "Grace is enough," he said, "just as Thou wilt; 
whatever pleaseth Thee." At eleven o'clock he dropped into a quiet sleep, from 
which the Angel of Death waked him at six o'clock to die. The signs of dissolution 
just at hand were perceived. The family joined in singing his mother's favorite 
hymn of Christian triumph, " Burst ye emerald gates." 

His breathing grew fainter, and just as the last stanza was completed, and without 
one bodily pang or struggle, his spirit passed silently away, and went through the 
Emerald Gates into Paradise. 

Rev. William Reed, 

the next speaker, in presenting his tribute, said it had been his misfortune to come 
to Buffalo so lately that he had been enabled to know Dr. Heacock but a little while, 
yet he was thankful to God that he came soon enough to know him. Meeting him 
first about three years ago at White's Bank, and only then for about two minutes, he 
felt, when parting from him, as though he had known him for years. One could 
not meet the man without being benefited by the grace of God which seems to flow 
from him to those with whom he came in contact. That large, noble heart which 
he carried in his bosom was filled with love for Christ — the great element of 
religion. God's thought for the world — love — was represented in him more prom- 
inently than any other trait. He loved the world as God loves it ; he loved not 
only his own, but all churches of Christ, no matter what name they bore. The 
" good-night " he left, is a good-night where they do not need the light of a candle 
nor the sun, for there is the light of God. If the spirit of the man could speak to 
us, it would be that that same love which turned night into day might shine now upon 
us. It was God who said, " Let there be light," and brought light out of darkness — 
out of chaos. He blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Our brother met his 
time to die not at ten o'clock in the night ; not at the midnight hour of twelve ; nor at 
one, two, three, foui", five or six o'clock in the morning ; but in the perfect number 
he passed into the perfect day. By that same grace, that same glorious Gospel of 
the living God, we may pass from night, sin, death and every evil, with that same 
soft prayer and shout of triumph with which our brother, counsellor and father met 
the king of light, risen from his everlasting hills, to lead him into that eternal day 
which is the smile of God. 

At the conclusion of Rev. Mr. Reed's address, the First Church quartette sang, 
" Abide with me," and Rev. Charles Wood, pastor of the Central Presbyterian 
Church, spoke as follows : 

Address by Rev. Charles Wood. 

On the last Sabbath of May, six years ago, the First Church was draped with 
the symbols of mourning. Upon the great congregation gathered within its walls 
was a solemn hush, the sure token of deep grief. A mighty man had fallen. The 
fruitful ministry of Dr. Walter Clarke had been suddenly closed by the fatal touch 
of disease. At that Memorial Service there stood in the pulpit the majestic form 
which so soon was to follow to the grave. To him had been committed the honor 
of speaking, for hundreds, of the sorrow which filled their hearts, of their reverence 
for the life and ministry of a faithful servant of God. Some of you will never forget 
how tenderly he spoke. Some of you as you listened learned to bear toward him a 
love which time has only strengthened. To-night, those lips so eloquent then, are 
cold and silent, and we have come to give some expression, even though in a poor 
and feeble way, to the sorrow that rests upon the heart. Not only will the devout 
men of this city lament for him, as of old the Disciples wept over the dead body of 
the Christ-like Stephen, but even men of worldly and dissolute life will shed a tear 
or speak some word of regret that this man has gone from us. There is that in a 
beautiful Christian life, such as his, which moves to admiration all but the most 
stolid. Men may look upon painting and statue ; may listen to the rythmic sen- 
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him who can look upon a life, such as this which has just closed, with no desire that, 
as this was, so his own might be. Dr. Heacock did, through his character, that 
which no man, though a golden-mouthed Chrysostom, could have done through his 
sermons. He showed the possibility of living, even in these days, a life as truly 
Christian as was that of the early Disciples. We call this a sordid, grasping, selfish 
age, but here was a man who lived in it, not the life of a monk in his cloister, but 
as a man among men, and yet kept his garments unspotted. He made real, doc- 
trines which some call visionary. In him they saw an incarnation of the truth he 
spoke. I have felt, when in his presence, after contact with ordinary men, as one 
who had been shut up in a little room might feel if lifted suddenly upon a mountain- 
top. The air is fresher, the view is wider, the toys that had given pleasure now 
look worthless. By the greatness of his nature you were so uplifted that the view 
of life was broadened. Things, before but vaguely seen, seemed worth living for. 
You will pardon this personal confession, but as I have said to myself more than 
once, as I came out of his study and walked down the street, " I ought to be a 
better man." We do right, then, as churches, we do right as individuals, to lament 
to-night over the loss of such a man. Let no sceptic taunt us with the cry of incon- 
sistency, because we weep when one has gone to receive the unfading crown ; we 
shed the tear, not for him, but for ourselves. Our great-hearted Stephen has fallen 
asleep, and can we not, like the Christians of Jerusalem, express our sorrow for 
the unutterable loss ? Must we drive back the tears to rankle like poison in the 
soul? 

On the thirty-first day of August, 1869, the chapel of the Lafayette Street Church 
was filled with many people, though it was not the Sabbath day. No member of 
the Church had been stricken with death, and yet there was a look of sadness on 
every face, for on the morrow their pastor was to cross the continent to labor for a 
few months beside the shores of another ocean. They knew not what dangers 
might encompass him by the way. They could not protect him, but they could and 
did pray that he might be kept under the shadow of the Almighty's wings. On 
December 13th, of that same year, a great gathering packed even the aisles of Lafay^ 
ette Street Church. No sad faces were there, all was gladness and joy, for he whose 
departure they had mourned had come back to them with health and vigor renewed. 
Like those who met in the chapel on that August evening, we to-night are sad and 
troubled, for again he has gone away, — gone this time across the ocean. But there 
are no dangers in that path. He is safe with the Shepherd who leads the way. 
Already that journey, long as it seemed to us, is ended. This morning his prayer 
was answered, he " looked into the face of God and was at rest ; " the rest which 
comes to the angels of heaven, who are ever spending themselves in the Saviour's 
service, but who are never weary. 

But is there nowhere to-day a joyous assembly like that which filled the church 
when he came home from the West? Think you there were none to give welcome, 
when, this morning, the soul returned from its earthly pilgrimage to the God who 
gave it? If there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, that turns from 
the ways of darkness into the path that leads through the gate of pearl, what must 
be the joy that swells and breaks forth in anthems of praise along the streets of 
gold, when a soul redeemed by Christ has been brought by the power through all 
the dangers of earth into the safety and glory of heaven ? 

Following this address a quartette from the North Church Choir, sang the chant 
" Come Unto Me When Shadows Darkly Gather." 

Rev. Mr. Crabbe, 

Pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, arose, and said he had intended not to 
make any remarks, but, lest his silence should be taken for indifference, he wished 
to express the grief and sorrow which he and his congregation felt in the loss of 
Dr. Heacock. Since his first meeting with the deceased, four years ago, he had 
learned a great deal from that good man's Christian life and experience, and looked 
upon him as possessing the warmest heart and tenderest sympathy of any member 
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Rev. D. R. Frazer, 

Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, said : This is one of those occasions when 
silence is the only fitting and adequate expression of sorrow. Our sense of loss is 
so great, our pain so severe, that we cannot embody an expression of our feelings 
in words, and in the failure of the attempt is made manifest the fact that these sor- 
rows are unspoken, because unutterable, and that they are greater than those that 
may be given in human speech. To say that we stand staggered by the blow, by 
this calamity, conveys all that might be presented in a formulated address. The 
thoughts of the man who had been stricken down insensible, when he recovered 
consciousness, reverts to what transpired when he received the blow, and then the 
present surroundings. Between the two there is a great blank. The speaker had 
received just such a blow upon hearing of the death of Dr. Heacock, and instinct- 
ively he thought of the time when he saw him first, and then to his last meeting 
with him. Between these two occasions there was a great blank. It was his priv- 
ilege to be a member of the General Assembly, which met in the Church of the 
Covenant in 1869, in New York City. The business of the last day's session had 
been about closed up, and the only thing of importance that remained was the vote 
which was to decide the attitude of the Assembly with reference to the reunion of 
the two branches of the Presbyterian denomination. About the hour of adjourn- 
ment at noon, the advisability of adjourning over the afternoon was brought up. 
During the discussion that ensued a great, stalwart, noble-looking man arose, and, 
mounting the platform, said that if the Assembly was to be adjourned as proposed, 
he had something to say, and, if not, he would postpone his remarks until the 
afternoon session. The motion for an adjournment was immediately voted down. 
Dr. Heacock had something to say, and everyone wanted to hear it. His simple 
presentation and announcement of a purpose was sufficient. When the Assembly 
convened in the afternoon, the Church was thronged, and Dr. Heacock made the 
most earnest, the most fervent, the most eloquent appeal for Christian liberty it had 
ever been the privilege of the speaker to listen to from mortal lips. Two or three 
others felt called upon to speak, and one of these, a gentleman of recognized abil- 
ity and eloquence, stuttered, stammered, stumbled and hesitated. Finally, in sheer 
disgust with himself, he threw up his hands and exclaimed, "Who can come after 
the king!" The best of men, Mr. Frazer thought, could have made the same 
failure, and the contrast would have been against them. The last time he saw Dr. 
Heacock was just after the death of Dr. Lord, but how changed from the man that 
paced the platform of the Church of the Covenant like a caged lion. When leav- 
ing him he said " good bye, " but Mr. Frazer little dreamed that that was the final 
farewell for all time. He had, during the afternoon, stood beside the corpse of the 
deceased. There was the sweetest expression upon the face, one that said " I am 
at rest, " and the speaker had said to himself, "thank God, there remaineth a rest 
for the people of God." When looking at the features of the departed, he had 
experienced feelings of sorrow and of sadness, but, also, of joyous triumph that 
filled his breast because of what the Gospel will do for a man. In closing his 
address, Rev. Mr. Frazer said that while the cloud of sorrow o'ershadowed those 
before him, in the midst of their depression they should take courage and thank 
God for the dying testimony of Dr. Heacock, for in all clearest outspoken vindica- 
tion of the power that he was, and in all that he did, it was the Gospel. 

After a prayer by Rev. Mr. Calkins, D. D., the hymn "Rock of Ages " was sung 
by the choir and congregation, and the services closed with the benediction by 
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BIOGRAPHICAL. 

The following brief biographical sketch has been derived from various sources : 

Rev. Grosvenor Williams Heacock, D. D., was born in Buffalo, N. Y., August 3, 
1821. He was the fifth son of Reuben B. and Abby P. Heacock. His mother was 
sister of Seth Grosvenor, of New York City, founder of the Grosvenor Library. 

Dr. Heacock was graduated from Western Reserve College, in 1840, and from 
Auburn Theological Seminary in 1844. 

He preached his first sermon in the old Park Church, now Lafayette Street 
Church, June 8, 1845. He accepted an unanimous call to the pastorate of the 
Church, and was installed October 19, 1845, Rev. Dr. Spencer, of Brooklyn, preach- 
ing the sermon (see page 176). He was married June 13, 1848, to Miss Nancy 
Rice Stone, daughter of Jesse Stone, formerly of Brooklyn. 

In 1859, availing himself of a leave of absence from his congregation, he spent 
three months in Europe. In 1869, with consent of his own congregation, he 
accepted an invitation from the Howard Church (then Dr. Scudder's) in San Fran- 
cisco, California, to supply its pulpit for three months. (See page 132.) 

In 1872 his health was so impaired that his people proffered him an extended 
leave of absence, in the meantime continuing his salary and supplying his pulpit. 
In November, of that year, he embarked for- Europe with his family, and remained 
abroad about twenty months, passing through England, France, Holland, Germany, 
Switzerland, Italy, Egypt and the Holy Land. Visiting Jerusalem, Damascus and 
various places of interest in Asia 'Minor and Turkey, he returned by way of the 
Danube, attended the World's Exposition at Vienna, and finally rejoined his family 
in Switzerland. 

He arrived home, in apparently restored health, June 12, 1874, and was warmly 
welcomed by his people.* (See page 141.) 

He immediately entered upon the discharge of his pastoral duties, with a zeal and 
energy that led his people to hope that his health and strength were firmly re-estab- 
lished. But their expectations were doomed to disappointment. The hidden disease 
that had so long preyed upon his system, again mastered him, and he found himself 
incapable of the amount of labor he longed to perform. He struggled manfully 
against his increasing infirmities, till, at last, stricken down in his pulpit, he was 
compelled to close a most noble and useful ministry. 

This, his only pastorate, he had grandly filled for nearly thirty-two years, during 
which he had received repeated calls to larger and wealthier churches in St. Louis, 
Chicago, Boston, and other cities, with offers of a much larger salary. But love for 

*The following are the opening remarks by Elder John Otto on that occasion, which were 
omitted from Paper " C," through inadvertence, and are copied from the Express, of June 13, 1874 : 

" The occasion of our coming together this evening, brethren and friends, is one of unusual 
joy to this Church and Congregation, and evidently not devoid of interest to the community, as 
evinced by the presence of this goodly company, including, as it does, the representatives of 
every class and every Christian communion in this city. As we pass through life we are often, 
in the Providence of God, called upon like Job's friends to sit down by the side of the afflicted 
1 to weep with those that weep.' But to-night that same Providence permits us to indulge in 
tones of exultation ' to rejoice with those that do rejoice,' because of the safe return of our 
beloved Pastor and his family, home again after a long and unlooked-for separation, and after 
many and varied wanderings over land and sea. 

We will now with glad and grateful hearts and voices sing a hymn of welcome." 



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the city of his birth, and the Church of his youth, together with the prayerful con- 
viction that here he could do more for his Master than elsewhere, caused him to 
reject these attractive offers, and he lived, labored and died in the city of his birth. 

A fitting tribute to his memory and summary of his character may be found in 
the following extracts : 

From the Buffalo Daily Courier : 

Dr. Heacock was a man of rare natural gifts, a born orator, and as big-hearted 
and generous as he was intellectually clear and bold. He was a radical by tempera- 
ment, but broad in his views and charitable to the utmost, both in sentiment and 
practice. He was a man of courage, and, although ordinarily urbane, courteous 
and sympathetic, he was a lion when aroused, and smote what he conceived to be 
the wrong with a might that was resistless. He was immensely magnetic, and his 
oratory, whether in the pulpit or on the rostrum, was positively persuasive, or was 
charged with a fire that was all-consuming. He was largely emotional and readily 
excited emotional feeling in others. He was a clear, vigorous reasoner : his illus- 
trations were always happy and telling ; but it was when his logic was on fire that 
he appeared the oratorical Titan he truly was. His heart seemed capable of an all- 
embracing love, and his devotion to his family, his congregation and friends was 
grand in every sense. He was a man of remarkably quick intuitions ; he generalized 
with facility ; and, although the imagination had not the ascendancy in his character, 
it was active and sure in its workings. He might not at all times be resplendently 
brilliant, but he could when he would — which was always when the occasion de- 
manded it — make his thoughts glow as if on flame, or burn at a white heat. He was a 
glorious pulpiteer-, and it mattered not whether one fell in with his argument or not, 
he was fascinating just the same. Simple-minded, straightforward and sincere he 
always was, and determined to discharge all hfs duties to the utmost, at whatever 
cost to his personal comfort or means. He was liberal to a fault, hearty and 
unaffected in his manliness, and a loveable man in every way. In his death our 
community sustains an irreparable loss, and it may be truly said of Dr. Heacock 
that " we shall not look upon his like again." 

From the Commercial Advertiser, May 7th : 

In a sense in which it has never been said before, our great Buffalonian is dead ! 
Grosvenor Heacock belonged to Buffalo by birth, by the associations of his youth, 
by the relationships of his own home-altai-s, and by that manhood and professional 
career which began here, which he never would transfer elsewhere, and which w?.s 
here concluded among a people that loved him and in the city that honored him, 
and of whose moral and intellectual life he was a crowning glory. 

Dr. Heacock was his own original, a type of a class which rarely appears in our 
age of material ambitions. He was a man of moral enthusiasms, with an eloquence 
which overleaped the bounds of logical methods, and bore all who came under its 
spell into the deepest currents of sympathy and resolve. There is no American of 
our time with whom we can compare him. The period of the Revolution furnished 
the nearest parallel in James Otis; but in temperament, in moral passion, in self- 
consecration to humanity, and in that power of persuasion which is irresistible as 
the ocean currents, we can think of no one he so closely resembled as Wilberforce. 
Had he been in his place he would have acted his part. The hater of oppression 
and wrong, the lover of liberty and right, fearless, loveable as infancy, and sweet 
with all gentleness in private life, who can doubt that had his been a parliamentary 
career during the struggle against the foreign and colonial slave trade, he would 
have carved his name as deep in the century as did the great Englishman whom, 
in his moral and Christian character and in his genius, he so much resembled? 

He was born for revolutionary times, and in this respect he was happy in the 
opportunity of his life. He entered upon his professional career when the drama 
which culminated in civil war was opening. He was in its first act if not in its 
first scene. We have read descriptions and heard personal recitals by eye-wit- 
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session of a New-School General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the special 
occasion, a discussion of the slavery question. The conservative element in the 
Assembly was strong and gaining the ascendancy. The alarmed radicals called 
upon Dr. Heacock to oppose it. He accepted the leadership, and his speech was 
one of the events in the national controversy. His triumph was complete ; the 
Assembly was borne to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. His national reputation 
dates from that hour, and from that day until his failing health forbade such impor- 
tunity, he had repeated calls to pulpits in every section of the free States. 

He had all the elements of a commanding orator. He had a majestic presence, 
a voice musical as a lute, which was modulated to every phase of sensibility and to 
every degree of passion. He had a moral nature ever sensitive to duty, to honor 
and to manhood. Wrong he might be in his premise, illogical in his methods, but 
his moral nature, always supreme, guided every thought and act of his life. He had 
a deep sympathy with the sorrows and sufferings of his fellow-men. He broke no 
bruised reed, he wept with those that wept, and bore in his heart every sadness that 
sought his confidence. He was a fearless man ; moral courage had in him its com- 
plete incarnation. All these elements united to a warm imagination, and a passion 
which, profoundly as it might seem to sleep, was, on occasion, roused as the sea 
when lashed by the tempests, combined to make him a consummate orator. 

Like all men of his temperament, he was unequal. He required the occasion and 
the personal conditions for the exercise of his highest power. He was grand in his 
simplicity ; careless of fame, unpretending, exacting nothing, yielding everything but 
principle to friendship and courtesy ; generous, appreciative and loving — he was a 
true representative of the nobility of God. His presence was an atmosphere and 
an inspiration. The tone of private and public life was elevated and purified 
wherever he moved. In this sense, Buffalo has met a loss greater than she knows. 
" Native here and to the manner born," there was conceded to him a power no suc- 
cessor can ever command. His leadership was undisputed. 

Clarke, Lord, Heacock, have in rapid succession been summoned away. The 
keen, incisive intellect of the one, the polemic power of the other, and the splendid 
genius of the last of the Triumvirate gave supreme renown to the Buffalo pulpit. 
They had distinct individualities and mental characteristics. Yet their very diversity 
constituted a rare unity of moral and intellectual power. 

Sadly we follow to the grave the man whose nature and gifts have reflected so 
much honor upon his native city, and whose unconscious influence will survive when 
all its material glory shall have faded away. J. O. P. 



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ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL. 

On Monday the 7th, the Elders, Board of Trustees, Pulpit Committee, and a 
committee of the Ladies' Association met in the chapel for the purpose of making 
arrangements for the funeral of our Pastor. 

The Trustees voted to pay the funeral expenses. 

A Committee on Floral Decorations, viz.: William B. Olver, Thomas Struthers, 
Mrs. Loran L. Lewis and Mrs. Nathaniel Brown, was appointed. 

Mr. Charles G. Brundige was requested to prepare a Memorial Letter to the 
bereaved family, which was read and approved at the annual meeting of the Society. 

Also a Committee of Arrangements, consisting of Henry Childs, Henry H. Hale, 
George L. Squier, Willard M. Knight, Samuel N. Lawrence and Seth Mason, was 
appointed to perfect and carry out all the necessary arrangements in relation to the 
funeral and memorial services. 

Resolutions of respect and sympathy were passed at the regular session of the 
Ministers' Meeting, also by the Buffalo City Sunday School Association, at a meet- 
ing called for that purpose. 

His Honor Mayor Becker, in a special message to the Common Council, expressed 
the public sense of the great loss the city had sustained ; in response to which the 
Council passed appropriate resolutions. 

On the day of the funeral, Judge Sheldon adjourned the Superior Court, " as a 
token of respect to the memory and virtues of our departed fellow-citizen." 

At a special meeting of the Young Men's Association of Lafayette Street Church, 
held on Monday night, in the chapel, Edward N. Brush, M. D., Frederick Howard 
and Edwin G. Sawn were appointed a committee to prepare a suitable Memorial to 
be presented to the bereaved family. 

Brief addresses, expressive of great affection for the departed, and deep sorrow at 
his death, were made by Willard W. Brown, Isaac G. Jenkins, Seth W. Warren, 
Edward N. Brush, M. D., George A. Swales, Charles H. Baker, John Gowans, 
Edwin G. Sawn, John R. Linen, Edwin N. Long, William Y. Cobb, James Lynd, 
and Charles J. Crittenden. 

The Cordon of Temperance of the Church met on Tuesday evening, in the 
chapel, and took fitting action by appointing committees on Floral Offerings, 
Memorial, Funeral Attendance, and one to confer with the Committee of Arrange- 
ments. 

The Young People's Bible Class furnished a floral tribute, consisting of the word 
" Victory," which was placed above the cross given by the Cordon of Temperance, 
on the wall back of the pulpit. Beautiful floral tributes were also furnished by the 
Session, by the Ladies' Association, by the Sunday School, and the Milnor Street 
Sunday School, as well as by numerous friends. 

May gth, Wednesday evening — The Regular prayer-meeting, which was largely 
attended, was opened by singing and prayer, when Elder John Otto, our senior 
elder, expressed the feeling of our whole people in the following beautiful and 
appropriate words: 



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ADDRESS BY JOHN OTTO, ESQ. 

We are without a Pastor ! He is not, for God hath taken him. We shall never 
again hear his voice in sermon or prayer. We shall never again see him here. We 
may look upon the tenement of clay which he once inhabited ; we may look upon 
that which once was, temporarily, the abode of his soul — but the tenant has departed. 
He has gone, and gone forever, from our mortal sight. He who so recently walked 
these streets like other men, now walks the streets, the golden streets, of the New 
Jerusalem ; and he who once was literally a man of sorrows and acquainted with 
grief, now " sees the face of God and is at rest." 

Sometimes this seems to me a dream, but then, again, I am fully awake to the 
mournful reality. 

We shall miss our Pastor. We shall miss him from these familiar scenes in which 
he so loved to be, when we gather here to pray. We shall miss him in the sanctu- 
ary, when we see another standing in his place. We shall miss him in social life, 
which he so animated and enlivened with his presence. We shall miss him when we 
are in trouble and distress. We shall miss him most of all in the chamber of sick- 
ness and in the chamber of death. We shall miss him everywhere and always, for 
no one can ever take his place, either here, or in our homes, or in our hearts. 

As the neighbors of unhappy Moab were called upon to weep and lament, " how 
is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod," so may we call upon those about 
us to lift up the voice of lamentation as they may behold or consider our desolation 
— a desolation which has cast its dark shadow into every heart, and which will be 
only the more fully and justly estimated and measured and more deeply felt with 
every passing year of mortal life. 

I have known our Pastor intimately for a longer period of time than I have known 
any one except my sainted mother. Not by his own selection, but because of busi- 
ness necessity and our church relations, we have met and counseled with each other 
almost daily, unless prevented by absence from the city, for nearly thirty years. 
Blessed necessity that brought us so frequently and so closely together ! and conferred 
upon me the inestimable advantage and high privilege of such companionship. 

In the presence of this mournful dispensation, I cannot summon to my aid words 
adequate to discover to others either a sense of my personal bereavement or my 
admiration for his splendid abilities and beautiful Christian character as illustrated 
in his life. Intellectually the peer of any, he was as simple as a child. With the 
strength, the stature and the understanding of a man, he had also the tender-heart- 
edness and loving nature of a woman. He was a bow of strength to the weak, and 
an angel of light to those in darkness. Self-denying and self-forgetful, he halted at 
no sacrifice to serve another. He was always on the right side. He was kept from 
making great mistakes because he had no selfish ambitions to subserve. He sought 
not honor of man — he only sought the honor of God, and the good of man. Like 
his Master he went about doing good ; he was always about his Father's business. 

He has been to me, and I am not ashamed to confess it, what a mother's breast is 
to the head of a grieved and sobbing child. He has spoken to me such words of 
tenderness and strength as no other man ever spoke, and, as I think, no other man 
ever can speak. When he came to my aid he came in power, and I felt it. As I 
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whatever disaster might befall me, I had in his love a treasure which could not be 
reft from me, and in his friendship a friend who, whatever others might do, would 
never forsake me. I do not, however, speak for myself alone ; my brethren, in this 
that I have said, I also sp^ak for you. All that my Pastor was, or could be, to me, 
he was and would be to each of you. 

But at such a time as this, words seem poor and mean. Deeds, not words, are 
the summons of the hour. Let us then renewedly consecrate ourselves to God, and 
to works of Christian love and labor, as we may have opportunity to do them. Let 
us bear about with us in the world more of the impress of his spirit. Let us follow 
him as he followed Jesus, and then, at last, when we come to die, praying as he 
prayed, " Let me rest." " Let me rest ;" there will come to us in answer to. our 
prayer a voice, " Enter into rest." God help us in this our time of need ; God 
bless us and sanctify unto us this our great affliction. 

W. M. Knight also spoke, substantially as follows : 

Dear Friends : I cannot let this occasion pass without offering my poor tribute 
of respect to the name and memory of our beloved Pastor. We have met to-night 
under circumstances that are special and peculiar to us. Some of us, many of us, 
have never known but the one Pastor, and, as has been said before, " this Church 
has never known but one Pastor ; that Pastor has never known but one flock." 

This, our dear Pastor, has been taken from us, in what to many would have been 
the prime of manhood. His broad, noble life has been spent for us — for his flock — 
for this people he loved so well. We mourn his loss to-night, and his life, as a sweet 
and fragrant memory, will linger with us — will dwell in our inmost, in our holiest 
thoughts forever. 

The seven hundred stars which are, or are to be, set in our dear Pastor's crown of 
rejoicing, will attest through all the " mighty roll of the eternal ages" to his faithful 
and devoted work, his tender love for all, and to the magnificent and beautiful 
character of him we mourn to-night. 

Seven hundred souls brought to Christ in his own Church, to say nothing of, per- 
haps, as many more through his ministry, who have connected themselves with other 
churches ; to say nothing of help and cheer to the seven hundred who before, under 
other ministrations, and in other churches, had found their Saviour ; to say nothing 
of the good he has imparted to others who still wait. But the seven hundred 
are peculiarly his, to deck as brilliants of the night his star-gemmed diadem for- 
ever ! Seven hundred stars — some but faintly glimmering perhaps — clustering 
around that noble brow, resplendent with the brightness of the heavenly glory ! 

We are to look upon that brow for the last time to-morrow ; but let it not be 
with weeping eyes. Let us not think of the sad, sad decay, but up and beyond, to 
that blest home in glory, whither he has gone. He will rise before us no more, to 
offer his beautifully-touching prayers, or to urge us on to duty by his earnest, faithful 
words. His tongue is stilled in death ! His voice is hushed forever on earth ! but 
its tones linger with us yet — will linger with us through all time. 

God's will be done ! Our dear Pastor has been taken from us in the midst of his 
usefulness, and, as I said, in the full prime of manhood. We mourn his loss. The 
churches of our city and land mourn his loss. The city, the community, humanity 
mourns his loss ; for he was ever the champion of the oppressed and the down- 
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millions of earth, for the dear Saviour's- sake ; ever a comforting friend to the sor- 
rowing, to the bereaved and mourning ones. 

When a great occasion called for a great champion he was always ready to 
respond, and was always equal to the occasion — grand, noble, tender and loving. 

I say we all mourn his loss. What shall we say of that dear household, sitting 
now with burdened hearts amid their great sorrow. Hearts bleeding at every pore 
— wounded, crushed into the depths of a woe and sorrow that were unbearable 
were it not that the abounding Grace of Christ is able to lift from off the bruised 
and bleeding heart, the burden even of such a great and crushing sorrow. 

He has gone to join the great company of the blessed in heaven. I believe our 
dear Pastor has greeted with a heavenly smile all his dear flock who went before 
him to the mansions in glory, as they, with glad songs of rejoicing, welcomed him 
home. 

We mourn not for the dead. They are in the midst of blessed companionships ; 
they are at rest ; they are in peace ; they are receiving the glad plaudit " well and 
faithfully done." We mourn for the living in their great sorrow. They are yet in 
trial, in gloom, resting under the dark shadow of a great affliction ; and the only 
silver lining to the cloud that hangs so heavily is that the loved one is basking in 
the great sunlight beyond. 

The following account of the funeral, which took place on Thursday, May loth, 
is copied from the daily papers of the city : 

THE FUNERAL. 

The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from the family residence on Main 
street and at the church. The obsequies wei-e more than usually solemn and impres- 
sive. Several of the flags of the city were floated at half mast in honor of the dis- 
tinguished dead, and the public interest in the services, showed, if any evidence was 
necessary, how strong a hold the dead minister had upon the affections of the people. 

At the family residence, No. 988 Main street, the remains reposed in the drawing- 
room, in an elegant casket which was covered with black cloth and trimmed with 
silver. The plate bore the inscription: " Grosvenor Williams Heacock, Pastor of 
Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church. Born August 3, 1821/ died May 6, 1877." 

A numerous assemblage of the relatives and near friends of the deceased gathered 
at the house early in the afternoon, where a brief service was held. At a quarter 
before two o'clock the exercises were opened by the Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D., who 
announced the hymn, 

" Father, Whate'er of Earthly Bliss," 

which was sweetly sung by a quartette composed of Miss Sara Barker, Miss Ella 
D. Barker, Mr. John Lapey, and Mr. James W. Bixby. Rev. Dr. Hopkins, of the 
Auburn Theological Seminary, offered an appropriate and affecting prayer, after 
which Rev. Grosvenor Hopkins, of Hamilton College, announced, and the quartette 
choir sang, the hymn, 

" Burst Ye Emerald Gates, etc." 

This simple service concluded, the casket, with its covering of floral offerings, 
was borne to the hearse by the following bearers : Elders — George L. Squier, 
S. N. Lawrence, Charles H. Baker, John Otto ; also, Edwin A. Shaw, Edward 
Bristol, Samuel H. Fields, Nathaniel Brown. The clergy, leading in solemn 
procession, followed by the bearers in honor : Board of Trustees — Henry Childs, 
C. M. Horton, Henry H. Hale, John L. Alberger, Loran L. Lewis, Alexander 
Brush, Willard W. Brown, John Gowans, Joseph P. Dudley; also, Chas. G. Brun- 
dige, Superintendent Lafayette Street Sunday School, John R. Linen, from Milnor 
Street Sunday School, Willard M. Knight, from Lafayette Street Sunday School, 



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and by the mourners and friends. All entered carriages in waiting, and at a 
quarter past two, the procession moved slowly down Main street to Lafayette Street 
Church, where the principal services were to be held. 

At the church the ceremonies were announced to begin at half-past two o'clock ; 
but long before that time a large crowd gathered in front of the church and waited 
patiently for admission. The doors on the Washington street side were opened at 
one o'clock. None but the members of the congregation were admitted, however, 
until two o'clock, when the doors were thrown open to the general public. In a 
few moments the church was crowded, in gallery and auditorium, the aisles being 
filled in with camp-chairs, which were all occupied, leaving a large number who, 
unable to gain admittance, thronged the north side of the park fronting the church, 
many of whom remained during the protracted services. 

The decorations of the interior could scarcely have been surpassed for taste, 
beauty and appropriateness. Standing at the Lafayette street entrance, the eye 
first rested on a large white cross edged with green, which was set high up on the 
wall, at the back of the pulpit, against a deep background of black. Above it, in 
a semicircle, was the word " Victory," worked in delicate white buds with an out- 
line of smilax. Still higher up was a band of black cloth thrown from one side 
of the church to the other and caught up in graceful folds by large rosettes. The 
high chairs on the platform were heavily draped. The reading desk over which 
the deceased clergyman had so often expounded the word of God to his congrega- 
tion, was enshrouded in a heavy pall, which formed a relief for another beautiful 
white cross. This was set against the front of the desk, so that it seemed to be sup- 
ported by a delicate creeper of smilax which extended down over the top. On each 
side was a large vase with a luxuriant wealth of flowers. Immediately in front of 
the platform a low bier was constructed and so arranged that when the casket was 
placed in position it seemed to rest in a bed of callas. At the head of the bier was 
a small stand supporting a mass of flowers, and crowned with miniature sheaves of 
ripened wheat, emblematic of the dead pastor's life. The organ was draped in 
many streamers of black. The tops of the windows along the sides of the church 
were outlined in deep mourning and connected one to another by black folds, 
looped up with rosettes. A broad band of black extended around the whole front 
of the gallery, which was also adorned with a heavy sash of the same material, 
trained in graceful lines and fastened by rosettes with beautiful white callas and 
sprays of green set in the center of each. At regular intervals white shields were 
fastened and inscribed with the last expressions of the deceased, among which we 
may mention the following : " Christ is my all, first, midst, last, and without end;'' 
" Thy rod and Thy Staff, that 's enough;" " Victory is won;" "I rest absolutely 
secure;" " I am leaning on the Cross; " " I love all my dear kindred, 77iy dear people, 
my dear brethren in the ministry and in all the churches;" " Nothing but sin have 
I to give, nothing but love shall I receive; " " / want nothing bzit to see the face of 
God and be at rest; " " Grace is enough; " " He is my all, the rock of my salvation." 

Also, at the end of the church, at either side of the pulpit, a motto was placed 
on the wall, expressive of the sense of his people towards their Pastor. To the left, 
or as one faced the pulpit, on a shield, were these words: "He was worthy for 
whom we should do this; " and, on the right, " The joy of otir heart has ceased." 

Arriving at the church, the procession moved slowly up the aisle, headed by Rev. 
William Shelton, D. D., rector of St. Paul's Cathedral, reading the opening portion 
of the Episcopal Burial Service. 

The following clergymen, many of whom were to take part in the exercises, then 
took seats on the platform : Rev. James B. Shaw, D. D., of Rochester ; Rev. Byron 
Sunderland, D. D.,of Washington, D. C. ; Rev. William Shelton, D. D., of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church ; Rev. Edward Ingersoll, D. D., of Niagara Falls ; Rev. William C. 
Wisner, D. D., formerly of Lockport ; Rev. Darius H. Muller, D. D., of Grace M. 
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Rev. Albert T. Chester, D. D., Principal of Buffalo Female Academy ; Rev. Liber- 
tus Van Bokkelen, D. D., rector of Trinity Church; Rev. George H. Ball, D. D., 
of Niagara Square Baptist Church ; Rev. Albert Bigelow ; Rabbi Sampson Falk, 
of Temple Beth-Zion. All the other clergymen of the city, as well as several from 
other places, sat in a body in seats assigned to them. 

The services were commenced at half-past two o'clock, and were conducted by 
Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D. The Choral Union, Mr. Carl Adam conductor, supplied 
the vocal music, Mr. C. W. Sykes presiding at the organ. The organ voluntary 
broke the solemn silence which had settled upon the congregation. A fervent 
invocation was made by Rev. William C. Wisner, D. D. Rev. D.H. Muller, D. D., 
read a selection from the Bible. The Choral Union then sang the following from 
Mendelssohn's "St. Paul," which was read by Rev. Dr. Van Bokkelen : 

How lovely are the messengers that preach the gospel of peace ; 
To all the nations is gone forth the sound of their words, 
Throughout all the lands their glad tidings. 

An impressive prayer was then offered by Rev. V. R. Hotchkiss, D. D. 
Rev. Dr. Chester announced that he had received a telegram from Rev. Mr. 
Plumb, which he read. It was as follows : 

Boston Highlands, May 10. 

To the Lafayette Street Church : 

Beloved Friends : I grieve that I cannot stand with you to-day by the side of 
our fallen Pastor. From East to farthest West a great company of those who have 
known him are mourning with you, sorrowing that we shall see his face no more. 

Albert H. Plumb. 

After which, Dr. Chester spoke as follows : 

As I was absent when the Memorial Service was held, last Sabbath evening, at 
which time his brethren in the ministry had opportunity to give utterance to their 
feelings in view of the death of our dear brother Heacock, I take this opportunity 
to say a few words to show that I am also a mourner upon this sad occasion. I 
have known the departed for almost a generation. I was a pastor by his side for 
more than a^ decade, and I had learned to know him intimately and to love and 
respect him for some of the noblest qualities that adorn our manhood. He was 
indeed the Greatheart whose office it was bravely to lead a large company of pil- 
grims — to defend them from their enemies, to comfort them on the way. He did 
not desert them in the valley of the shadow of death ; he saw many of them safe 
across the river, and within the walls of the Celestial City. 

They say he died of enlargement of the heart. He could carry, he did carry a 
bigger heart than any common man. Its strong pulsations moved him like a giant, 
as he stood forth the fearless champion of the oppressed, the down-trodden and the 
afflicted, as he came forth from Sabbath to Sabbath as the defender of the essential 
truths of the plan of salvation by Jesus Christ ; as he espoused his country's cause 
in the defense of civil liberty, with a burning patriotism ; as he strove with the 
mighty energy of love to win the souls of men to the service of his Divine Master. 
Some enlargement of the heart would not hurt the most of us. But his was too 
great even for his robust and stalwart frame, and it has taken him away. Yes, he 
falls the victim of his very excellencies. With less enthusiastic fire, less zeal in the 
service of the right and holy, less self-sacrifice, less yearning over lost men, he 
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I mourn with you, dear mourners, over this brother beloved. The loss to this 
community is greater than could have been made by the departure of any other 
man. But let us think of his great gain, and dry our tears as we are assured that 
he has begun the complete enjoyment of his immortal life. 

This entire congregation, this bereaved family, and this large circle of ministerial 
brethren of so many denominations, are very grateful to the two life-long friends of 
our departed brother, who have come from abroad to address us in our grief, and 
to whom we shall now listen — Rev. Dr. Shaw, of Rochester, and Rev. Dr. Sunder- 
land, of Washington, D. C. 

The hymn, 

"When this passing world is done," 
was then read by Rev. Albert Bigelow, and was sung by a quartette. 

After the singing of the hymn, Rev. James B. Shaw, D. D., of Rochester, in 
accordance with the wishes of Dr. Heacock, expressed shortly before his death, 
preached the sermon. (Page 216.) 

After the sermon, the " Offertoire Funebre," an adagio from Beethoven's " Heroic 
Symphony," was played on the organ by Mr. Sykes, after which Rev. Byron Sunder- 
land, D. D., of Washington, D. C, delivered an address. (See page 222.) 

When Dr. Sunderland closed, the chorus from the " St. Paul," " To Thee, O 
Lord," etc., was read by Dr. Ball and sung by the Choral Union. The congregation 
then rose and joined in the singing of the Doxology, which closed the services. 

THE LAST LOOK. 

The casket was then opened, and the congregation invited to take a last look at 
the countenance of their dead Pastor. He was clothed in a suit of black broad- 
cloth, and looked so calmly and peacefully at rest, with his arms folded over his 
breast, that one could scarcely have the heart to call him back to life, even if it was 
within his power to do so. Death had wrought but little change in his face. The 
features were sharper and thinner, perhaps, and the gentle, loving eyes closed for- 
ever, but his lips seemed ready to break into the old smile which was wont to 
illuminate his presence like a sunbeam. 

The casket was conveyed to the hearse, and, followed by a long cortege of about 
sixty carriages, arrived at Forest Lawn shortly before seven o'clock. The services 
at the grave were conducted by Rev. Wolcott Calkins, Rev. Charles Wood and Rev. 
D. R. Frazer. They consisted of appropriate passages of Scripture, prayers, etc., 
and were brief and simple. The sides of the grave were lined with evergreens 
and flowers, and after the brief religious exercises the casket was lowered into its 
final resting-place. The sun had gone down in the west when the work was done, 
and the mourners turned sadly away from the grave which closed forever on all that 
was earthly of Rev. Grosvenor Williams Heacock. 

THE GRAVE. 

The entire inside was lined with flowers and smilax, and the mound of fresh earth 
made by the excavation was covered with a profusion of evergreens. This was 
provided by a lady of the Church — Mrs. Henry Childs — the arrangement being by 
Mr. Palmer, the florist. At the close of the services many persons came forward 
to the grave and plucked the buds and greenery upon the sides as mementoes. 
This last incident was thought by some strikingly illustrative of the good doctor's 
life. The flowers and leaves plucked upon the edge of his grave were fitting 
emblems of his generous deeds, and the lavish bestowal of his best thoughts 
upon others, during his career as a minister. 

His spirit passed to its rest at sunrise on the resurrection morn. It was at sunset, 
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FUNERAL SERMON BY REV. JAMES B. SHAW, D. D. 
He being dead, yet speaketh. — Hebrews, xi. 4. 

The sacred writer refers in these words to Abel, and it has been a long while 
since he was taken away. Hundreds and hundreds of years have gone since he was 
laid in the first grave that reluctant hands ever dug. And still " he being dead, yet 
speaketh." And what makes this sentence more emphatic, is the fact that the life 
of Abel was an uneventful one. He was a keeper of sheep, and in that humble 
calling all his days were spent. He never wrote a line that has come down to us ; 
he never spoke a word that anyone can recall, nor did he do any heroic deed that 
was counted worthy of being put on record. He looked well after his flock ; he 
was a good shepherd, and a dutiful son, and gave to God the homage that is his due. 
And that is all — all that those who loved him best could say. Yet that man, after 
so long a time, is said to be still speaking unto us, still pleading with us to be true 
to Him who dwelt in the bush, and, if need be, lay down our lives sooner than 
deny him. " He being dead, yet speaketh." Now the text and the providence 
which has called us together, has suggested two or three thoughts which I will bring 
in their order before you. 

God, it is very clear, has so constituted the present state as to perpetuate the 
influence and the usefulness of a good man after he has left the earth. And I may 
say, in a word, that the existence of the race in successive generations has much to 
do in keeping his memory and influence alive. Every generation begins where the 
one that went before them left off. We enter into their labors, we carry out their 
plans, we finish their works, and in this way perpetuate their usefulness. And as 
every generation begins with new vigor and fresh enthusiasm, and has beside all 
the materials which their fathers gathered and all the knowledge which they accumu- 
lated, so far greater things are accomplished than one generation staying here the 
ages through could ever have brought to pass. 

Then the transmission of hereditary traits of character has also much to do in 
perpetuating our influence. Perhaps a good mother, who has moulded her child in 
her own image, is the most interesting illustration we have of this principle. How 
often it is said, the daughter is just like the mother — is just the mother over again ; 
the same gentleness, and tenderness, and disinterestedness — never thinking of self, 
never counting the cost, dying for others as the martyrs did, only taking a longer 
time to do it. The mother still lives in the daughter, and thus continues to bless 
the world after she has left it. 

It is very evident that the works which a good man leaves behind do more than 
all other things to perpetuate his usefulness. Man, it has been said, makes everything 
immortal but himself. He plants a tree that will last for ages ; he builds a house 
that will stand for centuries ; he erects a monument that shall bare its head to the 
rays of the last rising sun ; but he himself passes away like a shadow. But let us 
bear in mind that man is under no necessity of making himself immortal. God 
has endowed him with that awful prerogative ; and it is the chief glory of man, and 
that which lifts him above everything his hand has made, that he can rise to a 
higher sphere. He does not stay here, because this world is no place for him after 
he has reached manhood — after he has attained his majority, and is the glorious 
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minds away from the fact that the works of a good man do survive him, and thus 
enable him to bless every succeeding generation as it comes on the stage. 

Was John Bunyan ever doing so much good for the world as he is doing now ? 
While on earth he could speak only in his own mother tongue, and preach only to 
the little company who stole into the conventicle to hear him. Now he is publish- 
ing the glad tidings in every land ; now he has the whole world for an audience. 
Death has endowed John Bunyan with the gift of tongues ; there is no language 
under heaven that he cannot speak ; nor any man in the most distant corner of the 
earth that he cannot reach. So we may say of John Bunyan, and of that dear 
friend and brother, whose death has broken so many of us down, and of every other 
good man, what the Saviour said of himself: "It is expedient for you that I go 
away." 

How clear it is, dear friends, that God has so constituted the present state as to 
perpetuate the influence of a good man after he has left the earth, so that he " being 
dead, yet speak eth." 

Besides all this, does not our Heavenly Father watch over the influence of every 
faithful servant? — see himself that it does not die out? There was that case which 
occurred in the house of Simon : Jesus said to the woman who annointed him for 
burial, " Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached, through- 
out the whole world, this, also, that she hath done shall be spoken for a memorial 
of her." And when our Lord said this, it seemed in the highest degree improbable. 
Who that stood by and heard the words could have dreamed that the gospel, the 
story of the meek and lowly Nazarene, would ever be told throughout the world. 
And, if the gospel should be carried to the uttermost parts of the earth, how im- 
probable that this thing which this woman had done would go round the world with 
it. And yet, are not you and I here to-day to testify that the prediction has come 
to pass? That broken box of alabaster is still doing its blessed and benign work — 
still honoring the Master, still helping the needy, still telling the world that the best 
we have is all too poor for him. 

We may find quite an interesting illustration of this truth in the Old Testament, 
" And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold they spied a band 
of Moabites ; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha ; and when the 
man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his 
feet." We suspect that the sepulcher of the prophet had been sadly neglected and 
that his influence was beginning to wane. It takes but a little while for a godless 
generation to forget a prophet. And so God wrought this miracle to keep his 
memory alive, to perpetuate his influence, and make him more to Israel than he 
had ever been. Everybody now is talking about Elisha ; everybody is telling the 
wonderful things that he did. In the house and by the way, in the market-place 
and at the festive gathering, it is nothing but Elisha, and how the man who touched 
his bones was restored to life. Never, never say of a good man who has left the 
earth that his work is done. What if death has sealed his lips, he is speaking now 
with the tongues, and working with the hands of those who come after him. Has 
David done nothing for the world since he left it ; has Paul, the blessed apostle, 
done nothing for the world since he left it ? Have Watts and Dodridge and Wes- 
ley, and Whitfield and Toplady, and all the sweet singers of Israel done nothing 
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a good man has gone, to his reward, that his work is done ; " being dead, he yet 
speaketh," and who shall muzzle that mouth? who shall hush that voice? who shall 
silence that preacher?—" being dead, he yet speaketh." 

There is another thought which I want you to put by the side of this : What takes 
place in the world after the faithful servant of the Lord has left it, will be one of 
the chief ingredients in his cup of joy. Is there any evidence that those who have 
departed this life know what occurs here, after they are gone? I think that there 
is. When Samuel came back from the grave, is it not clear from the whole narra- 
tive that, he knew in what a dark and dangerous path Saul had been walking since 
he parted from him ? And that man of whom the Saviour speaks — who fared so 
sumptuously every day — seems to have known that his brothers were living in the 
same sad way that they did while he was with them ; that there had been no 
reformation since he left. But putting these instances aside, can you believe that 
while the good angels and the evil angels have free access to the earth, that those 
who dwelt here, and who must be more deeply interested than any of God's crea- 
tures in the fate of our world, do not so much as know' what transpires here ; that 
all these things are purposely kept from them, — can you believe that ? 

Admitting then that the departed souls know what occurs on earth ; admitting 
that they know all the good which grows out of their faithful labors here, will not 
that add immensely to their joy? Take the founders of such institutions as Oxford 
and Cambridge in England, and the colleges in our own dear land, and when they 
see how many these seats of learning are fitting for usefulness here, and glory here- 
after ; when they see how much these institutions are doing to make this world the 
abode of purity and peace, it is sure one day to be, must they not rejoice with an 
exceeding joy ? Is there anything better for them in the heavenly estate, save the 
presence of the Lord? And the joy will be greater because the world's best ben- 
efactors received so little while here, because what they gave the world was for the 
most part an absolute gratuity. When I think of Palissy burning his last chair to 
start a fire ; when I think of Goodyear pining in prison ; when I think of that 
eastern artist leaping into the furnace as the only way of making his work perfect, 
I thank God that these men are still the possessors of conscious existence; that 
they still see the great things which they are even now doing, for those who came 
after them. Does not the martyr now see how many his calmness and fortitude 
have strengthened to suffer, how many the flames in which he perished have lighted 
to glory? Does not that sight make much of his heaven? " He being dead, yet 
speaketh." But I am still more confident that what occurs in the heavenly world 
will add immeasurably to the joy and blessedness of the saint made perfect. 

Now we come to an interesting topic — the recognition of friends after they have 
parted here. May we believe that — may we rest in that ? How often this ques- 
tion knocks at the door of the heart; how often it comes back again, as if the 
recognition of departed friends were too good to be true. Now, dearly beloved, 
I have something to say to you, in this place and presence, that ought to dispel 
every doubt, and make you just as sure that you will see and know your friends as 
that you will see and know your Saviour. The Apostle Paul expected to meet his 
converts in glory, and to know them when he did meet them. This was one thing 
on which he counted, and counted without a misgiving. Hear him say to the Phi- 
lippians : " My dearly beloved, and longed for, my joy and crown." But that, you 



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say, is not quite decisive. Hear him then say again to the Corinthians : " We are 
your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus." Little 
rejoicing would there be on either side if the disciples at Corinth did not recognize 
the one who had brought them to Christ, and he, on the other hand, did not recog- 
nize them. If your heart still holds back then hear once more what he says to his 
children at Thessalonica : " For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? 
Are not even ye, in the presence of the Lord Jesus at his coming." 

Next to the presence of the Lord, nothing will add so much to the joy of the 
good man as meeting those in the heavenly world who might never have been there 
but for him. And .0, dear friends, if there be an unhappy man in that abode of 
the blest ; if there be a man who does not feel at home there ; if there be a man who 
wishes himself away ; if there be a man who cannot take part in the everlasting 
song — silent amid the seraphim — it is the man who can find nobody there that he 
brought to Christ. Nobody there that he brought to Christ ! How can he stay ; 
how can he bear the light of that insufferable glory ; how can he endure the pres- 
ence of that dear Lord for whom he did so little ? 

That dear departed brother being dead, yet speaketh — speak eth not in the house 
or by the way, not from the platform or in the pulpit, but standing on the steps of 
the sapphire throne. God will keep his memory alive ; God will see to it that his 
influence does not die out. And why should not the influence of such a man be 
made eternal ? Can our Heavenly Father do a better thing for the Church and the 
world he has just left ? Do you know, dearly beloved, how good and grand a man 
he was ? Do you know that as long as you may live you will never look on his 
like again ? Shall I mention some of those traits of character which made him so 
dear to us all ? God keep my heart still while I try to do it. I loved him because 
of his great sincerity and transparency. How he hated a sham. How he detested 
a make-believe. Like his blessed Lord, the only one he had no patience with was 
the hypocrite. Every tone of his voice, every look of his eye, every movement of 
his muscles, was in harmony with the truth. He was truth itself. He was trans- 
parent as well as sincere. He never had anything to cover up. Of course he was 
frank and generous — generous as a spring by the wayside, where every man may 
quench his thirst. 

I loved him because of his large-hearted liberality. There was no stuff in him 
out of which a bigot could have been made. He never fancied that all in this 
world which God cares for lived in the same shell with himself. The fact is he did 
not live in a shell. He lived in this wide world which the Father has fitted up for 
his children. This wide world, with heaven over it and heaven around it. Every 
one who came to him in the name of the Lord, was sure of a welcome, and such a 
welcome as he alone could give. While his own Church was the dearest of all, yet 
he loved every branch of the one holy, catholic, apostolic Church. The Scripture 
was more to him than the creeds, and Christ more than either, more than both. I 
think he was looking for the day when every wall would be taken down, when every 
fence would be removed, when everything which keeps God's children apart would 
be thrown into that heap of rubbish which is doomed to burn, when there would be 
one law, one faith, one baptism, one God, one Father of all, and one united, harmo- 
nious Church. When all who love the Master will be one here as they are one 
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My brother, your brother, filled up to the full the gospel idea of a Christian. 
He was a rare combination of the beauties of childhood and the glories of man- 
hood. Sweet, simple, docile, and confiding as the one, and strong, and steadfast, 
and brave, and magnanimous as the other. The mountain with all its loftiness and 
grandeur. The valley with all its beauty and repose. How often he made us 
think of the One who is dearest of all, and it is saying a great deal for a man when 
you say that he reminds you of Christ. So gentle, so condescending, so delicate, 
so winning in his ways, and yet at the same time, a man that you could look to, 
that you could lean on, that you could trust in ; a man to whom you could tell that 
story which you would hardly dare to trust to your own ear. O, no one who knew 
him was ever under the necessity of drinking his wormwood alone. " There is a 
friend, it is said, that sticketh closer than a brother," and may I not apply the 
words to the one who has gone away and taken so much of the light of this world 
with him. I counted his friendship as one of the felicities, as one of the great 
mercies of my life. To have known him, to have been loved by him, to have been 
taken into his confidence — should I not thank God for it as long as I live? 

Did you ever have a seat at his table? Did you ever spend a night under his 
roof? Then you know what that word hospitality means. He entertained every 
guest, not as if he might be, but as if he %vas an angel, as if he had come from 
another world to see him. Scarcely, if ever, have I met a man so interesting, so 
lovely, so fascinating in social life. The angels, you know, dearly beloved, carry 
their own light with them. It is never dark where an angel is. I have heard of 
an angel in a prison, and it was night, but there was no darkness there. I have 
heard of an angel in the cabin of a ship in the stormy Adriatic, and it was night, 
but there was do darkness there ; I have heard of an angel in a sepulcher, and it 
was sealed, and a great stone had been rolled against the door, and the shadows of 
the darkest night man ever knew had fallen on the earth, but there was no dark- 
ness there. So it was with my brother ; it was never dark where he was. With 
that radiant face, that cheery voice, and that heart always too full of love to hold it 
all, it was never dark where he went. 

And what he was under his own roof-tree, to his own family, I should need the 
language of Canaan to tell you that. I had almost asked, was there ever such a 
husband ? Was there ever such a father ? Was there ever such a son ? Was 
there ever such a brother ? But I feel as if I were standing here on the threshold 
of the holiest of all, as if it would be presumption in me to lift the veil and let 
you look in. And what a passion our dear departed brother had for souls. I use 
that word passion, because if you knew him as I knew him, no other words will 
suit you. Brother, how far could you go to save a soul? We know how far the 
Master has gone. We know how far the martyrs have gone. We know how far 
the missionaries have gone. I could tell you one who became a leper, of another 
who sold himself into slavery, of another who actually starved to death in his 
earnest endeavor to bring the lost sheep back. And how far, dear brethren, would 
you go? Here lies a man who would have died to save a soul, and died as his 
Master died. I believe that this passion for souls shortened his days. His zeal 
consumed him. When he thought of those who had been entrusted to his care, 
and for whom he must answer in the judgment he was almost beside himself. He 
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bereaved Church. He was everything to you, dear friends, that a man could be — 
everything that an eloquent preacher and a faithful pastor could be. O, it was a 
great thing to be one of his flock, to be under his pastoral care, to have a 
place in his prayers, to wait on his ministry ; a great thing simply to see from 
Sabbath to Sabbath that manly and majestic form. How thankful I am that you 
appreciate the great gift, that you gave him the warmest place in your hearts, that 
you loved him as scarcely any man in this Empire State was ever loved. You 
would not consent to have the tie which, bound him to you, and you to him, sev- 
ered. You loved him to the end, and more and more to the end. What a comfort 
now to know that he was your Pastor to the very last, that he died your Pastor, 
that he is now your Pastor, your Pastor in heaven, and that as one by one you reach 
your Father's house, he will be waiting at the door to give you a Pastor's welcome. 
I love you as I do my own dear flock, and because you were so kind and true to 
him. And may I remind you that the best tribute you can pay to his memory, that 
which he will feel the most, is to heed his counsels, is to walk in his steps, and 
become as much like the Master as he sought to make you. No matter how much 
you may be favored and blessed for the time to come, the best part of your patri- 
mony will be the memory of that dear man gone. The mourning for any brother 
in this congregation and in this community is like the mourning of Hadadluminda 
in the valley of Megiddon ; like the mourning for the good King Josiah — every 
family mourns apart, and their wives apart ; the eyes of the little children are red 
with weeping. 

I have asked the Lord to give me a word for those who sat under the ministry of 
that saint made perfect, and are still out of Christ. You, dear friends, have more 
to meet than most men have. It is the lot of but few to listen to such a preacher ; 
to such thrilling appeals and those bursts of eloquence which sometimes almost 
made you doubt whether it could be a man who brought the message. Shall those 
words, shall those tears, shall those tender tones — shall all those sermons and all 
those exhortations rise against you in the judgment? Dear friends, next to meeting 
the rejected Son of God, you have nothing so much to dread, if you die in sin, as 
meeting that beloved friend, who wore himself out in trying to save you. And how 
he loved this city — the city of his birth, the city of his childhood, the city of his 
manhood — where he spent the whole of his ministry, which no inducements could 
entice him to leave — the city for which he had done as much as any other man that 
God had ever given a home here ; the place of his father's sepulchre, where his 
godly mother — O, how he loved her — sleeps in Jesus, and the boy, whose going 
away all but broke his heart, is waiting until the day dawns. How he loved this 
city ! Its very dust was dear to him. Hopkins is gone, Clark is gone, Lord is 
gone, Heacock is gone ! Few cities have had such men to lose. Their lives are the 
brightest page of your history ; their memories the richest part of your patrimony. 

I have felt all the way through this discourse, dear friends, as if I could not go too 
far — as if I could not say too much, as if I could not make him more than he was. 
If I have gone too far, charge it to the great love which I bore him — say that my 
heart misled me. " I am distressed for thee, my brother ; very pleasant hast thou 
been unto me. Thy love for me was wonderful, passing the love of woman. How 
are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished." I cannot say — I will not 
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face ; never more shall I hear the sound of thy clarion voice ; never more shall I 
feel the power of thy magnetic presence. I shall meet thee again, and in a better 
country and in a fairer clime — in that beloved city through whose streets no funeral 
procession ever creeps slowly along. But O ! it will seem so long first. 

And what a going away from the earth — what a setting out for glory it was ! 
Who calls it death? who says it was dying? "I need nothing more now but to see 
the face of God and be at rest." How characteristic — how much like him ! "I need 
nothing more now but to see the face of God and be at rest ! " Dear, dear brother ! 
Thou hast seen the face of God ; thou art at rest. No more wearisome days ; no 
more wakeful nights ; no more watchings of the morning ; no more conflicts with 
sin ; no more battles with disease ; no more doubts that here can never be dispelled ; 
no more aspirations that here can never be met. Thou shall hunger no more, 
neither thirst any more ; neither shall the sun light on thee, nor any heat, for the 
Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed thee, and shall lead thee unto 
living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away — God has wiped away — all 
tears from thine eyes. " The victory is won, the victory is won." Yes, dear brother, 
the victory is won — the victory over weakness and infirmity ; the victory over sin, 
the victory over death, the victory over the grave — the victory is won. Thou hast 
received the conqueror's crown, and it is doubly dear because the Lord, the Righteous 
Judge himself, gave it to thee. " O Christ, O Christ, thou art all that a dying man 
wants ; thy presence can turn the shadow of death into the morning." " Who 
would not suffer as he suffered, if he might go as he went. May my last end be 
like his." 



ADDRESS BY REV. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. 

When the news of his departure came, I could not do less than attend his burial. 
Time admonishes me that I must be brief ; but my tribute is sincere. He was my 
friend. I first met him here more than a generation ago. From that day I have 
admired and loved him with an increasing ardor. We began our ministry nearly 
together. He has lived and died in the city of his birth — the city that mourns him 
to-day, the city that adds him to the extending roll of her wise and noble dead. 
The first years of our acquaintance were memorable times. In those days I formed 
some friendships that have been to mean enduring inspiration. There stands, a 
house to-day in the outskirts of your city, where many a happy hour was passed. 
Need I tell you whose it was ? Alas! the feet of devout men have but just now 
returned from the grave of him whose presence was the light of that dwelling, and 
whose fame in the Church and in the land has been so truly chronicled by the 
master-hand of another mutual and much loved friend. 

But, while they remained, it was my lot, with a grief that has never been fully 
assuaged, to remove from this garden-region to other scenes. It was twenty-four 
years ago that I entered on my present pastorate — an event made signal to me by 
the presence of him whose repose is to-day so deep before us. He came to preach 
my installation sermon ; and oh, what a sacred fire was then upon those lips, now 
so mute and cold ! It was an honor that the old men who linger in the Church at 
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There have been times, when I have seen him towering in his pride of argument 
and eloquence, and have felt, as no doubt you have often felt, that in his giant 
strength, his burning words, and in his every look and bearing, our common 
humanity had been sensibly enriched and exalted. 

Such a day was that in the Detroit Assembly of 1852 — that conclave of mighty 
men discussing for days together the sacred principles of human freedom ! On that 
occasion he scarcely had a peer. His utterance came forth like a pent up storm, 
bursting all bounds. From that day he was famous in the land. 

The last sermon I ever heard him preach is recalled to me by the chapter just 
now read in your hearing, and which will linger with me to my dying day. It was 
at the time of the great Alliance in New York, on Sabbath morning, in the church 
of the now veteran and honored Dr. Burchard. The discourse was upon the life 
and character of the great Prophet Elijah, whom he brought before us with such 
vivid portraiture that we seemed to see a living reality. The vision swept on with 
the rush of a tempest. We saw the confusion of the prophets of Baal — the fire 
descending from heaven ; and, at last, the desperate flight of Elijah amid the wild 
rocks and solitudes of the desert. Then came in the fidelity of Jehovah toward 
His servant ! And I remember, as towards the conclusion, the whole audience were 
wrought up to the highest pitch of feeling. How those great, grand eyes were wet 
with tears, and the deep voice trembled with touching accents as he described with 
amazing force the wisdom and goodness of God in dealing with His own in troublous 
times ! 

We all know with what enei-gy and pathos of conviction he espoused the cause 
of anti-slavery, and with what resistless eloquence he everywhere urged the removal 
of the foul blot from our Christian civilization. And when at last the controversy 
culminated in the clash of arms and the bloody strife 6f civil war, we. know the 
brave but tender and powerful spirit with which he followed the advances of the 
Union armies — in one of which there was an idolized brother, a patriot and hero 
among the thousands around him — sealing his devotion with the sacrifice of his life, 
to the memory of which your city owes a monument, and the whole country a debt 
of the deepest gratitude. Ah, well I remember, at the close of the battle, the long, 
sad search for him, who, with all the human courage of his lineage and race, had 
marched on to certain death ; and when the remains were found, how gravely and 
touchingly the minister of Christ gathered the scattered branches of his family about 
them, and with almost paternal care, instilled again the lessons of patriotic sub- 
mission and of Christian resignation to the will of heaven. 

His immense popular power on the platform was given freely to every great cause 
of social and moral reformation ; and while no man surpassed him in these elements 
of greatness, yet his true heart-work lay in the preaching of Christ and in winning 
men to the discipleship of his master. It was here he laid himself out with 
unmeasured sweetness and strength. The stern and stormy parts of theology he 
left mainly to other hands. He loved to dwell on the infinite love of God for the 
sinful and the suffering, through the manifestation of the Cross, in depicting which 
he had scarcely a rival among the living men of his time. 

He dealt little with the subtleties and sophistries of the Schools, and was far 
more concerned with the sentiment and conviction of the Gospel as an all-sufficient 
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largeness of his nature — for lie was. as we know, of commanding person, and wholly 
magnificent in mind and heart — a majestic and brave-spirited man, in whom there 
was neither bigotry nor malice, but whose whole nature was deeply imbued with 
the most genial charity, and a melting pity for all human distress. Whatever was 
mean and low, narrow, sordid or false, he could not abide. A sense of injustice 
kindled in him like a flame of fire, and this .alone brought forth the thunder of his 
indignation. 

In none of the men that we have known was there a larger measure of strength 
and simplicity of power and modesty commingled. His nature was perfectly child- 
like, and accordingly tempered with a flowing, winning tenderness. He did not 
like to speak of himself, or even refer to his conflicts and his triumphs. Least of 
all was he given to egotism or self-assertion. While he was thoroughly original — 
no imitator and no trimmer — yet he rejoiced in books of all kinds, and reveled in 
the great and glowing thoughts of other men, and in everything that is glorious and 
inspiring in art or nature. He was in double sympathy with all that is beautiful 
and true — all that "is lovely and of good report." 

Such was the essence and tenor of his life — a life whose sun has gone down 
without a shadow, and of whose brightness and benignity — that which happens to 
few of mortal men — his own fellow-townsmen and neighbors, and especially the 
unfortunate poor, who always found in him a friend, come forward as the most 
prompt and willing witnesses. 

Into that inner and more sacred circle of his domestic life, where his quality 
shone as a lamp that burnetii, and which now no light of earth can substitute, I 
dare not, neither might it become me, to enter ; yet, my last personal communica- 
tions with him were in his own home, with his loved ones around him. It was in 
the September days, when the summer was fading and the leaves were falling, and 
the sun shone down upon the ripened year as the light of God shone down upon 
his mellowed and full-rounded life. 

Hearing that I was in the vicinity, he sent for me to visit him, and never had I 
a warmer welcome. I found him feeble even then. There was a gravity and gen- 
tleness in all his manner that I had never seen before. We talked of our early 
days, of the changes of life, of the prospects of the kingdom, of many things, and 
finally of the immortality. In every word I felt that he was near and dear to 
Christ, the living Head — that the angels were already whispering in his soul of the 
hour that was drawing on. We went to see Dr. Lord, the patriarch of your city, 
then on the confines of earth, already waiting for the chariot of Israel and the 
horsemen thereof. And, as we rode by the way, the autumn air seemed for him 
already moist with the spray of the river. 

And his heart was ever softening towards the people of his charge. The flock 
of his love seemed ever in his thoughts, and his hope then was, that he should get 
strength enough still to lead them. 

When the first monitions came of the giving way of his physical powers, there 
was a sadness not only here but in all our churches throughout the land ; and many 
who had heard that voice in his vital days, which had stirred the souls of men across 
the whole breadth of the continent, were anxious for the result. Then he traveled 
far away and saw the land of prophets and apostles, and saw Jerusalem, and saw 
the places forever hallowed by the footsteps of the Son of God. 



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His return was full of hope. But, alas, the months sped, and the winter came 
and went ; he saw that his work was finished. The ways of Providence are to us 
inscrutable. The times may be stirring with eventful ciixumstances, but the men 
who live in them, chosen of God, are more stirring still ; and doubtless he was 
among God's chosen. The time had passed and his task was done. 

I am not surprised that you would not sunder a tie too sacred to be dissolved but 
at the touch of death ! Since that hour, many eyes have been turned hither, many 
ears have listened for tidings of your Pastor, with heartfelt interest of suspense. 
But it was not long to wait. Here in the spring-time, Prophet of the Resurrection 
— here on the first May Sabbath, emblem of the Rest everlasting — here with the 
morning songs he loved so well to sing — here where his last great words were said, 
which I see hanging on those blossomed shields — here while the worshipers on 
earth were preparing to gather to the temple, God calls him home ! It is all so 
fitting — all so merciful ! 

Oh, Brother beloved — embassador of Christ — what a place thou hast filled — what 
a work thou hast done ! 

We are weak to-day, with tears and human sorrow, even as Jesus wept at the 
grave of His friend. But in our weakness and stricken love a new proof of the 
life hereafter springs up in our souls. There is no dream in our hope. It cannot 
be that what he was to us has fled away forever, like some shadowy illusion. 

Nay, rather, he has but taken his final journey to the Promised Land — the true 
Canaan — the heavenly city — the glorious place prepared ! Free from the pains and 
infirmities of the flesh, he begins another and a grander ministry, on which the sun 
shall never set i 

No, men and brethren, there is no mistake, no fallacy in that life and immortality 
which Christ has forever brought to light. We shall see him again ! We shall not be, 
as the highest modern philosophy of scientific speculation asserts, " like a streak of 
the morning cloud, fading into the infinite azure of the past" — but our faith, which 
is the noblest form of the souls' imagination, accepts the testimony of the glorious 
apostle, while we can each exclaim with him : " I am now ready to be offered, and 
the time of my departure is at hand ; I have fought a good fight ; I have kept the 
faith ; I have finished my course ; hereafter there is laid up for me a crown of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day ; and 
not to me only, but to all them who love His appearing." 

Hope on ! Toil on ! A few more suns will bring us to it. We shall see them 
again ! Our tears will be turned into gladness, and our faith to fruition, august and 
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The following was taken from the Courier of the fourteenth of May: 
THE LATE DR. HEACOCK. 
Sunday School Memorial Exercises at Lafayette Street Church, Stinday, May 13, 
Interesting Addresses, etc. 

Rev. Dr. Hopkins, of Auburn Theological Seminary, preached at the Lafayette 
Street Church yesterday morning, and his sermon had fitting reference to the death 
of the pastor, Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D. At noon the Sunday School 
of the Church held in the chapel, memorial services of an exceedingly interesting 
and impressive character. The chapel was plainly and tastefully draped. The 
desk was covered with black cloth and behind it hung a portrait of the lamented 
Pastor draped with crape. Over the portrait was a large crescent of beautiful 
flowers, and on a pedestal beneath it was a crown of wheat sheaves, illustrative of 
Psalm 126, v. 6. 

At the opening of the school, after the hymn, 

" How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord," 
had been sung, the superintendent, Mr. Charles G. Brundige, spoke substantially 
as follows : 

We have never before come together under circumstances like these. We have, 
it is true, at other times met here when this house was draped with the emblems of 
mourning, when our hearts were swelling with grief at the death of some one we 
loved and who had filled so high a place in our Christian activities that our loss 
seemed irreparable. But, at such times, there was one with us profound in spiritual 
insight and strong in wisdom, who held us up and guided us — one who comforted 
us with words of consolation which fell from lips of wondrous grace. But now he, 
"our tower of strength," has fallen, our "son of consolation" has been taken from 
us, and we are indeed bereaved. 

In some respects, our case in this sad Providence, is not entirely exceptional, for 
other pastors have been summoned away and have left their flocks in the wilder- 
ness ; other husbands and fathers have been taken from the embrace of those who 
loved and depended on them ; other citizens and patriots have been called to leave 
their high duties to those who may come after them, but which one of them all 
combined in his own person all the highest qualities of a Christian minister, a 
husband, father, friend and patriot in such lavish profusion as did our departed 
friend ? 

Till his departure, we knew not how great a treasure we had in him. Even now 
we have only a feeble conception of the greatness of our loss. But we are begin- 
ning deeply to feel the increased weight of responsibility resting upon us. We sit 
here to-day like a family of children, just returned from that consecrated spot where 
they laid the revered form of a loved father in his last resting-place, gathering 
around the hearth-stone to speak with each other for a little while in tender memory 
of the dear departed, before they go forth to meet the increased care and labor 
imposed on them. We are all of his household — he was our father— and while we 
do not shrink from any duty and responsibility, we do not feel that we can to-day 
resume our usual routine of duties. We have no heart for it now. We will, there- 
fore, omit our usual exercises and spend the hour in mournful but pleasant mem- 
ories of him whom we all loved so fondly. 

At the conclusion of these remarks, prayer was offered by Elder John Otto in 
word and manner so appropriate as to harmonize with the feelings of every heart 
present. 

After the singing of the hymn, 

" Oh think of the home over there," 
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As the images of Cato are said to have been only the more conspicuous by their 
absence in Caesar's triumph, so the late Pastor was the more present to every thought 
and heart to-day, because we feel that he is gone forever from these scenes with 
which your memories so intimately associate him — you see him in this desk more 
than you see me. He loved such gatherings as these. You can hear his strong 
voice joining with you in singing these pleasant hymns of children. He was emi- 
nently simple, unaffected, child-like himself. You all know with what hearty 
enthusiasm he would throw himself into children's sports and amusements. No 
man was ever less self-conscious, less artificial, or stood less upon mere conventional 
principles or professional dignity. At the same time he had that courtesy, that 
tenderness towards the feelings of others, that abhorrence of cruelty and wrong, 
that resembled him to a genuine knight of romance. The noble picture of him on 
the wall behind me has been ornamented by some ladies with a beautiful floral 
crescent. It reminds me that it was the symbol of an early Christian order of knight- 
hood. It is too much associated in our minds, in all modern times with barbarism 
and cruelty, but if it was formerly the emblem of the development of the heroic 
Christian character, nothing could have been more appropriately chosen. I have 
often thought, as I have looked at his stalwart frame and fearless bearing, what a 
splendid knight he would have made in the times of old, crushing down whole 
ranks, like Richard of the lion heart, by his single arm. The days of this sort of 
chivalry are happily over, but true knighthood did not consist so much in personal 
strength, or skill in the use of arms, as it did in the qualities of courage, tenderness 
and generosity ; in a readiness to take the side of the poor and weak ; to help the 
oppressed against oppression ; to lift the fallen, and stand at every personal risk 
and sacrifice in defense of the right. In these respects your Pastor had the very 
spirit of chivalry. He was in all his feelings a gentleman — gentle, considerate, 
patient, kind. If he had any fault it was too much generosity ; he over-estimated 
the merits of his friends, and invested them with qualities which existed only in his 
own warm imagination. He was made on too large and too noble a scale to be 
capable of the small sin of jealousy. He lived to praise, seldom to censure. He 
was never afraid that any man would stand in his light. 

I urge then, children, all of whom he loved, to try and imitate his example. Be 
true, brave, generous, as he was. Do not be afraid to stand up for the weak and 
injured. He never thought of his own popularity or interests in such a cause. In 
continuing his remarks, Prof. Hopkins spoke of his own sense of personal loss in 
the death of Dr. Heacock, and of the necessity under which he had felt himself, 
throughout all these scenes, of moderating both his language and manner, in order 
not to be betrayed into an exhibition of feeling that might be painful both to himself 
and to his hearers. 

The hymn " Rock of Ages," 

was then sung, when Mr. Henry H. Hale spoke as follows: 

Children and Young People of the Lafayette Street Sunday School : 
It is your Pastor as well as ours that has gone. You will not see him again in 
this place where you have so often seen him, and whei-e he so loved to be, but you 
will never forget him. Most of all I hope you will never forget what he was to you 
as a friend. He was truly and pre-eminently the children's friend. 

Others have spoken and written of him eloquent and fitting words of what he 
was as a man, a minister, a Christian, and a citizen, but we meet to-day to think of 
him as the Pastor and the loving friend of this Sabbath School. 

Nothing ever touched a deeper chord of feeling in his heart than to be told that 
his ministry had been owned of God and blessed to the children of his congregation. 
He often said to me that he considered that as the crowning honor of his life as a 
minister of the gospel. How true this is, your presence here to-day, and your en- 
rollment as belonging to Christ, will show in part, but your purposes and deeds from 
this day will more fully prove how deep and abiding has been his influence on your 
lives and characters. 

To you who have been brought to Christ by him his words have always been 
and still are, "Abide in Christ." To you who hitherto have refused, he still says 
by word and by motto, " Come to Jesus." 



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The first time I ever heard the name of Dr. Heacock was at Detroit, at the 
meeting of the General Assembly in May, 1850. He burst like a meteor in the sky 
before that audience, in a speech defending the rights of the Southern slave ; a 
speech which even he was afterwards willing to acknowledge was eloquent. I did 
not hear that speech, but heard of it the next hour. 

The first time that I ever met Dr. Heacock was at the fair held by the Lafayette 
Street Church in McArthur's building, or, as it was then called, Mc Arthur's Garden. 
This was in the summer of 1850. I well remember the first touch of his hand, so 
soft, so w r arm, so true, as to make you feel the outgo of his generous heart towards 
you. 

Most of you have no remembrance of the time when you first heard the name of 
Dr. Heacock spoken. It was in the household in your earliest infancy. Most of 
you cannot remember when you were first introduced to Dr. Heacock, but some of 
us remember when even the older ones of your number were introduced to him. It 
was in the church, at the baptismal service that he took you in his arms so tenderly 
and lovingly, and dipping his fingers in the water, gently laid his hand on your fore- 
head, and placed there the seal, which in the name of the Father, and of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost, bore evidence of your consecration to God by your parents. 
Those vows you afterwards confirmed and ratified when you stood before the same 
altar and made your confession of Christ. And now by both these sacraments you 
were introduced into the family of the Church, for the Church is a family, and we 
are all members of it. 

The head and father of our family is gone, but the question of this day and hour 
is, what duty and obligation does that lay on each of us, from oldest to youngest ? 

It is in our Church and Sabbath School to-day just as it would be if the father 
had gone from each of your homes. Your first duty then would be to comfort and 
strengthen each other by words and deeds of love ; by each one sharing the larger 
responsibility thus laid on you ; by a patient forbearance and large-hearted charity 
with your brothers and sisters, remembering you need the same from them ; by a 
true courage and hopefulness that shall cheer them on in every duty ; by a spirit of 
self-denial that will lead you to make sacrifices of personal feeling for the good of 
the family ; by a constancy and devotion to your own family in preference to any 
and every other family; by a jealous watch over every interest of your family, never 
speaking disparagingly of it at home or elsewhere ; in short, striving to make it a 
happy Christian home. This you would do in your household. Will each and 
every one of you do it in this Sabbath School and Church Home ? The children of 
the Infant class can do it ; all in this room can do it. The young people of the 
Bible class can make their influence a power in this Church by doing it. As mem- 
bers, we must all make our Church a happy Christian home for our own sakes, and 
for an attraction to others ; not from selfish aims and motives, but for their good 
and to honor Christ. 

To do this we have the noble example of our Pastor, showing in all these years 
the power of an unselfish life. That has been to me a greater power than his 
preaching, great as it was. There is nothing we shall remember like our Pastor's 
unselfish love. " He gave himself to us, everywhere and always." 

Our latest memory will recall the scene in this Church, draped by sorrow in 
deepest mourning, beautified by love with choicest flowers, hung around by memory 
with the words spoken by our Pastor in his dying hours — words of love, hope, faith 
and " victory ! " 

His open grave, draped in greens and studded with blooms, testified of that love 
which followed him even there, and from thence, as his last gift on earth, he gave 
back to us those beautiful flowers to keep as a perpetual reminder of his unselfish 
love. 

Possessing his spirit and thus following him, you will embalm his memory in 
perpetual bloom and perpetual green. Then will you be his everlasting crown of 
rejoicing, and his sheaves gathered in the harvest of heaven. 

After the school had sung, 

k ' In the Christian's home in glory," 

Elder. Charles H. Baker, late superintendent, said: 



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The more I contemplate the life and character of our Pastor, the more lost I am 
in wonder and admiration ; and the more difficult it is to express my love and 
reverence. 

But let me try to tell you of some things that made me admire him so much. 
They may help us to build up our own Christian characters. First of all, do you 
know how patient he was? I think it was from the last Wednesday evening prayer 
meeting he ever attended, we were walking home together, when he turned sud- 
denly and said to me, " Why should we complain? We have a long life of joy 
and peace and comfort, and perhaps a few days of suffering, but after that an 
eternity with Christ. Why should we complain?" A few days before his death I 
called to inquire after him. They told me that he had said a short time before, 
" I do not expect God to work a miracle in my case, but I do wish he would ease 
this terrible pain just a little." 

He believed of his Saviour- just what the old hymn makes him say : 

" Mine is an unchanging love, 
Higher than the heights above ; 
Deeper than the depths beneath — 
Free and faithful — strong as death." 

And in return for that wondrous love he gave all his energies of heart and mind, 
consecrating his whole life to the service of that Saviour. This made him powerful 
and succcessful in all his walks of life. 

He counted it a high honor to be called a follower of Christ. Many own it as 
if half ashamed to do so. He was always willing and ready to advocate the cause 
of his Master. Napoleon's " Old Guard" followed him through all his marches and 
victories : yes, even in his defeats and retreats to the crowning disaster at Waterloo. 
They called it honor to suffer, and even to die for their leader. But our Pastor's 
leader never knows what it is to be defeated, and his soldiers are always victorious. 
The highest, noblest, yes, the very best of all honors, is to be a true " soldier of 
the cross." 

As he conquered sin and death, so also we can conquer ; and we too can be " the 
children of a king." 

Then followed the reading of a letter of sympathy and condolence — a memorial — 
from the school addressed to the bereaved family, and is from the pen of Miss Mary 
L. Chichester, one of the committee appointed to prepare it: 

Buffalo, May 13, 1877. 

Dear Loved Ones : 

One week ago ! A week of what sorrow to us, of what unspeakable joy to him. 
Heaven is nearer and dearer to us than ever before, for is not our Pastor there ? 
We would not recall him — if we knew that one word of ours would bring him back 
we would leave that word forever unspoken ; it is better so, we believe it, although 
we cannot yet see why. But oh ! how we shall miss him. 

We, the little ones of his flock, how we shall long to see him come into our little 
room with his loving smile, and to hear him say " My dear little children." Many 
of us he has taken in his arms when our parents consecrated us to God ; and, 
although we cannot remember that time, we have often seen him take other little 
ones in his gentle, tender way, and have thought, so he took me. 

' And we, the girls, can we ever forget the way in which he called us "Daughter." 
which made, us feel, each time that we heard it, a stronger desire to be that which 
his chivalric nature regarded with such reverence, a true woman. 

And we, the boys, how well we remember the days when we went out on some 
pleasure excursion with him ; how sometimes the waters of the lake lured us, and 
he would calm our impatience to plunge into the waters in the heat of a noon-day 
sun with laughing words and a promise that, as the day grew cooler, he would 
accompany us ; and how, as the hour drew near, we gathered about him with 
shouts and laughter claiming the promise. We revered but we did not fear him, 
for perfect love had cast out fear. 

And some of us have grown to manhood and womanhood knowing no other 
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oped, we found that we were growing into a better understanding and a higher 
appreciation of his great thoughts. 

Some of us have come to him from other pastors whom we loved, but ere long 
we found them taking a second place in our affections, he must be first. Some of 
us have come to him strangers, but his great loving heart took us in, and never 
while he lived could we feel utterly friendless. 

Many of us can never forget the days when sorrow entered our homes, how he 
came like an angel of God and spoke words of comfort and sympathy, how he 
wept with us over the graves of our loved ones, and pointed us to that home where 
they had gone and where we would join them never again to be parted. 

We feel that words are cold and inadequate to express our sorrow and our loving 
sympathy with you in your great grief, and we can only say, let us weep with you, 
for we too loved him, and will ever count it the greatest privilege of our lives that 
we were allowed to be members of his sabbath school. 

When the hymn, "A beautiful land by faith I see," 

had been sung, Elder George L. Squier, many years the superintendent of the 
school, spoke as follows : 

Dr. Hopkins has explained the meaning of that crescent of flowers over that dear 
form, and told you that it is an emblem of knighthood, and explained how the 
kings of the earth used to confer knighthood upon their distinguished subjects. 
But our beloved Pastor needed no knighthood from earthly kings, for he was 
knighted, by the King of kings, when at his birth He endowed him with all those 
noble qualities that combine to make a nature's nobleman, and when afterwards 
He shed upon him so rich a portion of that divine grace which made him the 
highest type of the Lord's nobility — a Christian knight — a title which he honored 
and dignified and beautified through all his life. 

Children, you all loved our dear Pastor — no one could know that grand, noble, 
generous, great-hearted man without loving him. But do you know how much he 
loved you? I will give you a glimpse of his heart that he gave me. It was about 
a month ago, in one of the last brief interviews I was privileged to have with him. 
In speaking of the possibility of leaving us he said : 

" I can part with the adults of my people, for they can get along without me, but 
I cannot bear to leave the dear children — that is the hardest of all. As their sweet 
faces come up before me I cannot say good-bye to them. There are strings bind- 
ing each heart to mine. If God wills I can break the strings that bind me to the 
men and women of my congregation, but how can I snap the heart-strings that 
bind me to the dear children ! " 

And as he spoke the great tears rolled down his cheeks and his lips quivered 
with emotion, showing how his great heart throbbed with love for you. Do you 
appreciate such love from such a heart? Then how can you better show this 
appreciation and honor him than by following his footsteps and imitating his life ? 
God may not have endowed you with that rich profusion of noble qualities with 
which He endowed him, but God can give you that grace which sanctified and 
beautified and enriched his character. Seek and obtain that grace and follow in 
the footsteps of your sainted Pastor in a noble, generous, Christian life, and when 
your life's work is done he will welcome you to the heavenly home with even greater 
love than he bore for you on earth. 

The exercises concluded with singing 

" The sweet by-and-by." 

The memory of these impressive exercises, a tribute of love to the deceased 
pastor, will long be cherished by all those present. 



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MEMORIAL LETTER FROM THE CHURCH, BY CHARLES G. 

BRUNDIGE. 

To the Family of our Beloved Pastor, Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacqck, D. D. 

Dear Friends : Many of us have already personally expressed to you how 
deeply and sincerely we grieve with and for you, and all of us would have done so 
had it been practicable. It seems to us proper, therefore, to yield to our feelings 
and unite in an expression of sympathy with you in this great sorrow which has 
come upon you, his family, and upon us, his Church and congregation. 

It has always seemed to us, that the ties which united the Pastor and people of 
the Lafayette Street Church were of a peculiarly intimate and tender nature. He 
was not our Minister only ; he was more. He was Father, Brother and Friend as 
well as Pastor to each one of us. And so fully had he become enshrined in our 
hearts, that it almost seemed as if we were united more by blood than by the bonds 
of mere church fellowship. And the same feeling has extended to his family, and 
we have always cherished an interest in their welfare and happiness, such as we 
have in those endeared to us by domestic ties. Hence, dear friends, we address 
you with the freedom and informality of those, who, gathering around a common 
hearthstone, would speak of a dear departed head and guide in whose love we all 
had shared. 

We do not grieve for him — his work is done, and well done — and we know 
that he has exchanged the toils, the sorrows and the pains of earth for the rest, the 
joy and the blessedness of Heaven. The honor and glory that he achieved here is 
infinitely transcended by the glory which surrounds him in the presence of the Son 
of God. He valiantly fought the battle of life — through Christ he won the victory, 
and now at the hands of the great Captain of Salvation, he has received the con- 
queror's crown. He has gained ; we have lost. For him, therefore, we rejoice ; but 
it is for you and for ourselves that we weep. 

The wonderful harmony which, during the thirty-two years of his pastorate, has 
prevailed in this Church, is a strong attestation not only of the influence of the 
broad and charitable doctrines which he taught, but also of the love of his people 
for his person, their veneration for the saintliness of his character, and their confi- 
dence in his wisdom. The same qualities that combined to render his home so 
cheerful, loving and happy, made their power known in an equal degree in harmo- 
nizing the Church and making it a true brotherhood. 

As you miss him from your home, so do we from the house of God ; as your fire- 
side is desolate through his absence, so are our gatherings for prayer. We shall miss 
him also from the street, we shall miss him from our homes, from the bed of sickness, 
from the chamber of death ; and even now our hearts are yearning with yours for 
the sight of his noble form and the sound of his cheering voice. And we shall 
miss him more by and by. When perplexity, distress and doubt overwhelm our 
souls, when our loved ones are fading under the breath of disease, when we our- 
selves are sick unto death, how will our hearts reach forth in longing for his revered 
presence, and for those words of counsel and hope and consolation which none 
could speak as could he. 

But against this grief there is placed, to us, the honor of having been of his 
Church and congregation, as there is to you of having been of his household. And 
this is an honor which will be treasured by you and by us, and which will be the 
more prized as the years roll on. 

Nor are we insensible to the great responsibility which rests upon us, in that we 
have for so many years enjoyed the privilege of sitting under his ministry. We 
feel that it renders obligatory on us a broader charity, greater earnestness and 
unselfishness of character, and a higher and holier living. And we pray that we 
may not prove false to that high standard of excellence which he ever maintained 
in our midst, nor fall back from those noble aspirations which he was the instrument 
of implanting in our hearts. We pray that the good work which he wrought while 
he was with us, may not only continue, but broaden and deepen in our hearts and 
lives till, redeemed and sanctified, we shall rejoin him in the realms of glory. 



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And now, dear friends ; permit us once more to express to you our sympathy in 
your affliction, and to assure you of our friendship and love, sanctified by the 
memory of him who was so dear to us all. 

In behalf of the Lafayette Street Church and congregation. 

MEMORIAL FROM THE COLORED CITIZENS OF BUFFALO. 

It is said that one of the finest instincts of our nature is that one which prompts 
us to honor the dead ; and especially is this a fact when they who have dignified and 
adorned our common humanity are removed from the spheres they have worthily 
filled. But when the removal of such, invades the sacred circle of our best affections, 
and sunders personal ties of tenderness and strength, then to give some expression 
to the feelings which crowd our hearts under the pressure of public calamity and 
private grief, affords a grateful relief, and blends an exquisite pleasure with a 
sacred duty. 

It is under the influence of such sentiments as these that we, the colored citizens 
of Buffalo, offer this humble tribute to the memory of the Rev. Grosvenor W. 
Heacock, D.D. 

When in the darkest days of American slavery, a man would risk his reputa- 
tion, his social position, his ministerial standing, yea, even his life, for proclaiming 
his belief in the truthfulness of the declaration, " that all men are created free and 
equal," even though it was incorporated in the fundamental law of the land ; when 
it was considered heresy to the popular opinion to speak one word in sympathy 
for the down-trodden and oppressed ; when the yell of the bloodhound was as 
music to the ears of Southern slaveholders and Northern demagogues, and the 
accursed lash was made to stripe the backs of honest men and women, whose only 
crime was that they were black ; when in the deepest of their misery their cries 
could be heard ascending on high, " How long, O Lord, how long," the colored men 
of Buffalo always knew of one kind heart open to them in sympathy, and who 
would always speak out eloquently in opposition to the trashy pretense of America 
being the " Land of the free and the home of the brave" so long as four millions of 
her sons and daughters, created in the image of God, were held in bondage. 
This cause he espoused from principle, and when God in his own good Providence saw 
fit to change the scene, and the shackles fell, and the protection of the government 
was given to all men, irrespective of race, color or previous condition, thereby rais- 
ing them to the dignity of an American citizenship, then, too, did he labor among 
us with all his accustomed zeal, in all movements tending to the elevation of our 
people ; and we cannot but recognize the fact that whatever has been attained by us 
here during the last fifteen years, is stamped with the impress of his genius and 
powerful influence.' Your Church may mourn a pastor, the community may grieve 
at the loss of one of its best citizens, the clergy may lament at the extinguishment of 
one of their brightest and most radiant lights, but these all united cannot overcome 
the depth of that anguish which we, the colored citizens of Buffalo, felt at the news 
of the death of the Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D. 

" He is gone from this strange world of ours, 
No more to mingle its thorns with its flowers — 
No more to linger where sunbeams must fade, 
Where on all beauty death's finger is laid ; 
Weary with mingling life's bitter and sweet, 
Weary with parting and never to meet, 
Weary with sowing and never to reap, 
Weary with labor and welcoming sleep, 
In Christ may he rest, from sorrow and sin, 
Happy where earth's conflicts enter not in." 

E. Williams Crosby, Chairman. 

Nimrod D. Thompson, 

John Butler, 

Benjamin Young, 

Thomas Harmer, 

Samuel Murray, 

John Dover, Committee. 



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At a special meeting of the Session of the Lafayette St. Presbyterian Church, held 
May 16, 1877, Elder George L. Squier was appointed to draft resolutions expressive 
of the feelings of the said Session in regard to the death of their Pastor. 

At the first regular meeting of the Session, held on the twenty-ninth day of May, 
1877, Elder Squier presented the following preamble and resolutions to the Session, 
and they were unanimously adopted, viz.: 

Whereas, On the sixth day of May, 1877, our beloved Pastor, the Rev. 
Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D., entered into his rest, and, while we feel the total 
inadequacy of words to express our admiration of his character and life, our appre- 
ciation of the great work he has done for this Church and for the cause of Christ, 
and our deep grief in view of our overwhelming loss, we cannot refrain from adding 
our official testimony to the many loving and tender words that have been spoken 
over his grave ; therefore, we, the members of the Session of the Lafayette Street 
Presbyterian Church, do hereby 

Resolve, That in the loss of our dear Pastor we have lost a shepherd, guide and 
loving friend, whom God had endowed with the richest gifts of manhood and 
sanctified with a double portion of His grace, so that it could be said of him, in a 
sense in which it can rarely be said of any man, that he was the noblest semblance 
of the divine image permeated with the divine love ; while in intellectual power he 
was pre-eminent, and as a pulpit orator he was surpassed by none in his day and 
generation, it is not the loss of these gifts that so overwhelm us, but it is the loss of 
that great, tender, all-embracing love, which was such a wonderful characteristic of 
the man, and which so transcended all his other great qualities as to be the most 
conspicuous force of his life. It was this great, sanctified, self-sacrificing love that 
made him such an exampler of Christ to all of his people, and drew every heart to 
him with a peculiar love, born of his love. 

Resolved, That the loss to this Church of such a shepherd, so endowed and so 
sanctified, is inexpressible ; founded and established through his efforts, nurtured 
during a whole generation by his loving, watchful, judicious care, the supreme ob- 
ject of all the auefflnt labors of his busy life, the loss to her is one that can- 
not be estimated nor replaced. He brought all the gifts of his great intellect 
and laid them upon her altar ; his prayers constantly ascended to God for her wel- 
fare ; urgent calls to larger fields of influence and honor could not draw him away 
from her ; more than seven hundred of her communicants have, by the blessing of 
God, been brought to Christ through his ministrations ; his great heart has throbbed 
through all these long years, with love unspeakable for his beloved people, and a 
consuming zeal for the salvation of their souls. How much he has done for us; 
how much he has sacrificed for us; how much he has suffered for us; yet how 
humbly he has walked amongst us, the companion and friend of the weakest and 
lowliest, doing all for the Master, and giving the Master all the glory ; and even in 
his death his heart's desire was that he " might still preach to us as he never 
preached to us while living." Living, he lived unto the Lord ; dying, he died unto 
the Lord. 

Resolved, That while we recognize the hand of a loving Father, who doeth all 
things well, in this bereavement, and humbly submit to his will, we are bowed down 
in sorrow at our grievous loss — a loss not only of a spiritual shepherd and guide, 
but of one who was as a brother and a father to each one of us — and we mourn for 
ourselves, for our Church, and for his bereaved family, whose loss is immeasurably 
greater than ours. Especially do we, as his Session, mourn the loss of his wise 
counsel and guidance, his earnest zeal for his Master, and his genial, loving, fraternal 
fellowship. 

Resolved, That in the midst of our mourning our hearts rise up in thanksgiving 
to God, that, in His infinite goodness He created such a man to dignify, ennoble and 
adorn the human race ; that He appointed him to be an embassador of Christ, and 
an exemplifier of Christian living; that He has brightened, purified and exalted our 
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this Church a shepherd so Christ-like in his life and love, and has spared him unto 
us for so many years, and permitted him to do a work in our midst that would fill 
and beautify and crown an hundred ordinary lives ; that the endearing relations 
between pastor and people were allowed to remain unbroken to the end, so that we 
are the inheritors of the priceless legacy of his noble life and triumphant death ; 
that He gave unto our loved Pastor such a rich portion of the divine grace and love, 
and sanctified his life with such blessed experiences, and gave him so many souls to 
be stars in his crown of glory ; that He gave him dying grace, and strength, to leave 
such precious testimony of the all-sufficiency of Christ, and of the power of the 
Gospel to sustain the soul at the gates of death. Thanksgiving to God, that for him 
the emerald gates were opened, and he has " seen the face of God and is at rest." 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved family our deepest sympathy for them 
in their unspeakable loss, and point them for consolation to that Gospel which was 
the strength and stay of him whom we mourn. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered upon the records of the Church, and 
a copy be presented to the family of the deceased. 

The following is from the West Side Presbyterian Church Session : 
To the Session of the Lafayette Street Church: 

Dear Brethren : We are deeply pained at the sad intelligence of the decease of 
your great and good Pastor, the Rev. G. W. Heacock, D. D. 

We shall ever remember him as a man after God's own heart — one who was the 
embodiment of love itself, and who served the Lord with a willing mind. 

The announcement of our evening service of yesterday had been made before we 
had learned the sad news, else we should have considered it our privilege and honor 
to unite with our sister Churches in the memorial service of one who was so 
universally loved by us all. 

In this hour of the deepest affliction — and at the same time of rejoicing, that it is 
your privilege to have so honored and worthy a representative in " the General 
Assembly and Church of the First-born" above — you have the heartfelt and truest 
sympathy of ourselves and all our people. 

We remain, dear brethren, yours, in the love of God, 

The Session of the West Side Presbyterian Church. 
Buffalo, May 7, 1877. 



MEMORIAL SERVICES ON THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY 
OF DR. HEACOCK'S PASTORATE, JUNE 10, 1877. 

{From the Courier of June nth.) 

The Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church was filled by an immense congregation 
last evening, upon the occasion of the union services commemorative of the death 
of the late lamented pastor, Rev. Grosvenor Williams Heacock, D. D. The pulpit 
was occupied by Rev. Samuel M. Hopkins, D. D., of Auburn, N. Y. ; Rev. W. C. 
Wisner, D. D., formerly of Lockport, N. Y. ; Rev. James A. Daley, acting pastor of 
Lafayette Street Church; Rev. D. R. Frazer, of the First Presbyterian Church; 
Rev. Wolcott Calkins, D. D., of the North Presbyterian Church ; Rev. Isaac Riley, of 
Westminster Church ; Rev. William Reed, of Calvary Church, and Rev. Charles 
Wood, of the Central Presbyterian Church. In addition to the mourning drapery 
and decorations arranged at the time of the funeral, the pulpit was adorned with 
flowers, and there were also some beautiful devices, noticeably a white cross in front. 
Near this emblem, resting upon an easel, was an admirable life-size portrait of the 
deceased handsomely framed, the work of Mr. Ammi M. Farnham, the well-known 
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After a voluntary on the organ, the hymn 

" I heard a voice from Heaven," 
was sung ; a prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Riley ; following which, came the 
selection, " Servant of God, well done." 

Rev. Mr. Calkins next read a portion of the Scripture, Rev. Mr. Frazer made a 
prayer, then Rev. Mr. Wood read the following Memorial Hymn, written by 
Miss Mary A. Ripley for the occasion, and set to music by Mr. James W. Bixby. 

1. 

Be pitiful, O Father, to our grief! 

See how we sink beneath Thy heavy rod ! 
Bend from the skies and bring us sweet relief, 

Be merciful in this dark hour, O God ! 

11. 

Our leader falls upon his sacred field, 

No more we hear his stirring battle cry ; 
He lies asleep upon his dinted shield, 

With patient, folded hands and close-shut eye. 

in. 

Our Shepherd has forgot his tended flock, 

He treads the mountain pathway all alone ; 
We stumble here against the cruel rock, 

And the young, helpless lambs make weary moan. 

IV. 

Be merciful, dear Father, to our need ! 

Our staff is shattered, and the shades descend ; 
Bind up the bruised hearts that faint and bleed, 

And be our great Physician and our friend ! 

It was rendered by a quartette composed of Miss Sara Barker, Miss Ella D. 
Barker, Mr. James W. Bixby and Mr. J. Albert Bixby, the organ accompaniment 
being played by Mr. E. L. Baker. 

Rev. Dr. Hopkins delivered the memorial sermon in a clear and distinct voice, 
and commanded profound attention until the close. He spoke as follows : 

MEMORIAL SERMON BY THE REV. SAMUEL M. HOPKINS, D. D. 

" NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS ; BUT THE SAME SPIRIT." — /. Corinthians, xii. 4. 

The causes which contribute to give a man his individuality, as respects both his 
physical, intellectual and moral being, are partly traceable and partly lie quite 
beyond the reach of our investigation. We are often able to see the parents repro- 
duced in the child, sometimes the grandparents. Beyond them our knowledge of 
personal traits is generally lost or imperfect. If we could see further back, and 
carry out a minute analysis of personal characteristics, we should, no doubt, find 
the attributes of remote ancestors coming curiously to the surface in the tenth or 
twentieth generation. We can see this broadly in the case of nations. They con- 
tinue to perpetuate century after century the qualities of their founders ; and a 
nation is only an aggregate of families. It continues the same, because the families 
composing it continue to reproduce, generation after generation, the physical and 
moral traits of their ancestors. The continual mingling of different families, and 
the distribution of the qualities they possess in common among the whole, prevents 
anyone from being too sharply discriminated from the rest, so that through all their 
diversity there shines out a general unity. But if we were able to prosecute a 
course of comparative physiology through the successive generations of a family, 
we should, no doubt, find that there is an individuality which inheres in each, and 
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modifications. A man exhibits a certain calm strength, firmness and tenacity of 
purpose. Those who knew his mother remember the same traits. He has a 
natural fearlessness and indifference to danger. In this he is his father over again. 
There is a peculiar quality to his voice. Old men remember that his grandfather 
or some great uncle had the same. He has a marked features-lip or nose — the 
portrait of an ancestor four generations back shows the same, though it may quite 
have disappeared in the intermediate generations. And so, if we could trace back 
and distinguish a family to the time of the English conquest of New York, or to 
the landing of the Pilgrims, or to the crusades, a sufficiently fine analysis might 
detect the individuality in it, which marks it or some of its members at the present 
day. Certainly there is one moral trait, not essential to humanity, but merely be- 
longing to character, which has come down to every family and every individual of 
us from our primal ancestor. 

In almost all cases, however, we are content, as we are indeed compelled, to rest 
our inquiry into hereditary qualities with a man's parents or grandparents. In the 
instance of all marked men, no remoter source of their peculiarities is sought for 
than their mothers. Of many men who have been distinguished for their gifts, and 
have stamped their impress deep on society, we only know that the love which 
brooded over their cradles was found in union with a strong intellect and a forcible, 
energetic character. 

Near the close of the fourth century, there was preaching in the city of Antioch 
a minister of the gospel named John. He had been born, and received all his early 
education, in that city. We know little of his father, who died young, but like his 
great contemporary Augustine, he has embalmed the memory of his mother, An- 
thusa, in his own eloquent description, and made it fragrant to all later ages ; a 
woman who, in the general laxity of Christian morals in Antioch, lived the life of 
a saint, who spared no care or expense on the education of her promising son, and 
who, even when he had come to be illustrious, retained her influence and almost 
her parental control over him. In this city he exercised nearly his entire ministry, 
often having occasion for bitter regret that, yielding to the authority of the court, 
he consented to exchange his pulpit at Antioch for the cares and intrigues, and, as 
it turned out, the enmities and persecutions connected with a greater Church in 
Constantinople. 

Family names, as you know, were not introduced till long after the time I am 
here speaking of. The name of John was common then as it is now, and about 
three centuries after his death this John began to be distinguished from other Johns 
as Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed, one of the very few instances in history where 
a man's proper name has become entirely lost in a descriptive appellation. 

It would be thought pedantic and extravagant if I should undertake to institute 
anything like a particular comparison between this world-renowned Father of the 
Church and splendid light of the oriental pulpit, and that honored and beloved 
pastor who, born and educated and exercising his whole ministry in this city, has 
so lately passed away from us amid the tears and benedictions of an entire com- 
munity. There are several respects in which the comparison would not be extrav- 
agant ; would not be, indeed, by any means to the disadvantage of the latter. But 
my object will be answered by availing myself of the features of resemblance 
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the history of your lamented Pastor. But following out first a thought already sug- 
gested, I ask your indulgence for a few words on that hereditary endowment of 
qualities which furnished the basis on which grace and culture built up such a char- 
acter as his. Some of you knew both his parents — many of you his more recently 
deceased mother ; the latter identified with the very earliest church organization in 
this city, and both of them with the history of this particular Church from the 
beginning. The father was a man, who, if his life of intense business activity had 
left him either taste or time for literary culture, might have been perhaps equally 
distinguished with the son. He had an intensity of mind — a force — a drive which 
carried him with tremendous energy toward his objective point. Whatever he 
willed, he willed with all his soul. When he had set his mind on an object, he over- 
looked all obstacles to its attainment. It was a nature to go far in good or evil, and 
that he did not persist in the latter direction, after his early manhood, was due 
under God to the wisdom, the patience, the firmness, the faith of that admirable 
woman whom God had given him to balance the defects or the excesses of his own 
temperament. 

11 A perfect woman, nobly plann'd 
To warn, to comfort and command." 

While she stood alone on the side of Christ, her own bed-chamber was the 
sanctuary in which she worshiped with her young children, dedicated them daily 
to God, and instilled into their minds the principles of the Gospel. When her hus- 
band joined her, that very day religion came down stairs and took possession of 
the house. From that time the daily sacrifice ceased not. Let the calls of business 
be ever so urgent, there was time for the reading of a long chapter, and the singing 
of a hymn, in which the untuned but intense organ of the husband followed one of 
the sweetest and most musical voices, whether for speech or song, that God ever put 
in a woman's throat. She came as near in all respects the ideal wife and mother of 
the proverbs, as anyone it was ever my happiness to know. Her children regarded 
her with a love which bordered on veneration. When she died her grandchildren 
stood around her bed and sung, with voices only less sweet than her own, the hymn 
in which she herself had delighted, as expressing the thought that she was "only 
waiting till the angels opened wide the mystic gate." 

There is often a curious felicity, if it is not rather to be called a prophetic forecast, 
in the naming of children. The parents' names seem to light on the children who 
most resemble them respectively. In this family the son, who was the first to die, 
bore the name of the first of the human race who died. The second had the name 
of the child whom God gave to Eve as a possession in the place of Abel. Both of 
them were men of the most vigorous intellects and great force of character. The 
third, who had the name and some of the marked qualities of his father, died as 
part of the sacrifice of the nation's life, on the field of Spottsylvania. The fourth 
had the name of his mother's family, Grosvenor. He had the large proportions 
which belonged to her lineage. Physically he towered much above the rest. His 
mother's lessons and prayers bore fruit early. He grew up a Christian child — con- 
scientious, prayerful, exemplary ; and being a member of the Church, catholic by 
his birth, he became, by voluntary adhesion, a member of the " particular Church" 
to which she belonged ; and made his first communion at the age of twelve'years. 
It is the doctrine of our Church that the children of believing parents are " young 
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ship in the Church. " They are to be instructed in the Scriptures and the faith of the 
Church ; taught to pray, to hate sin, and to love the Lord Jesus Christ ; and on 
arriving at years of discretion, if they are free from scandal, appear sober and 
steady, and have sufficient knowledge to discern the Lord's body, they are to be told 
that it is their duty and privilege to come to the Lord's supper." If this doctrine 
were practically carried out by parental faithfulness, it may be believed that a large 
portion of the children of our families, being theoretically " young Christians," 
would possess also all the other qualifications for an acceptable communion, and 
without needing to pass through any convulsive religious crisis would come gently 
and naturally into the visible fold of Christ's preferred disciples. What is called a 
" conversion " would then be only an awakening consciousness of an already formed 
life in Christ. Such was the process by which he of whom I speak was brought to 
take the step which is improperly called "joining the Church." 

The boy already exhibited a fondness for reading. He was seldom, when at rest, 
without a book in his hands, but he showed no marked precocity. At the too-early 
age of fourteen he was sent to college. Few lads at that age appreciate the value 
of college studies as a means of mental discipline. A year or two is almost sure 
to be lost, or worse than lost. I judge that he took little interest in classical or 
mathematical study. What roused his dormant faculties was the collision of mind 
with mind in college debate and the problems of intellectual philosophy. He 
dearly loved an argument. 

His mental constitution led him to let nothing go unchallenged. He wanted not 
authority but evidence on every point. He was one of those pupils whose inde- 
pendent, disputatious temper greatly embarrasses a timid teacher, but brightens, 
sharpens and exercises one who understands his business. It was in the early 
stage of the temperance and anti-slavery reforms ; and he trained himself for 
future arguments and future triumphs on a larger field by that vehement zeal with 
which he threw himself into the cause of the right. His career at the seminary 
corresponded generally with this. He mastered his studies with ease and always 
maintained an honorable standing, but he felt no such enthusiasm for Hebrew or 
for history as to tempt him to go beyond his text-book. His delight was theology, 
and in this department he had the advantage of enjoying the instructions of that 
distinguished teacher, Dr. James Richards. Professors of ampler learning and 
broader fame have adorned the chair of theology in our various seminaries, but 
none of more native shrewdness, of sharper insight into character, of greater tact 
in dealing with young, active, questioning minds ; none who encouraged a pro- 
founder reverence for the word of God, or better knew how to exhibit the theolog- 
ical system of our Church ; disembarrassed from those superfluous skandala which 
often cling to it without adding either to its strength or beauty. From the temper 
of his mind it would have been very hard for Dr. Heacock to become the slave of 
any rigid system of dogmas. He" was too bold and independent a thinker for that. 
But his own religious experience, the sound New England system taught by his 
mother, the instructive doctrinal preaching of the early pastors to whom he listened, 
had wrought the evangelical theology into the very fibre of his mind and character. 
It was through Dr. Richards that he was taught to harmonize its various doctrines ; 
to sustain them by a sound interpretation of Scripture, and to hold the more doubt- 
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called (after Bishop Butler), trie law of honor and conscience regulating God's deal- 
ing with men. The system of theology taught at Auburn did not differ in its terms 
from that taught in the older and honored seminary from which it was an offshoot. 
It was the system of the Westminster confession, cordially adopted and honestly 
interpreted ; and yet it cannot be denied that it was discriminated by a marked 
though somewhat subtile quality from that of Princeton, a quality to be detected 
not in its form, but in its spirit. The influence of a theological system does not 
depend so much upon its dogmas as upon its theories, and the relative importance 
given to its different parts. It may be the same in its substance, and yet may be 
held in a narrow or in a liberal interpretation ; it may be formal, or it may be evan- 
gelical ; it may be polemic, or it may be ironical ; it may be fixed or progressive, 
and a theory of the nature of sin, or a theory of the nature of the atonement ; 
posited at the foundation of a theological development it may issue out, even as 
between evangelical schools or teachers, into considerably diverse results. 

The distinguished pastor of Antioch, to whom I have thought it not unsuitable, 
in some aspects, to compare your late Pastor and brother in the ministry, was an 
orthodox father of the Church, held ever since in the highest honor and repute. 
But he lived before the time of theological systems ; he drew his doctrines from the 
original fountain of truth ; and he was not concerned to shape and color them with 
a view to their being fitted into any elaborate confessional mosaic. His views of 
the nature and effects of the primal apostacy ; of the grounds of the atonement ; 
of regeneration ; of the Church and the sacraments, would be far from satisfactory 
to evangelical divines of the present day. He was looking to practical efficiency 
in the preaching of the Gospel ; tc5 the conversion of man as his great object, and 
he preached a salutary heresy, without knowing or caring whether it were a heresy 
or not, when he thought the spirtual condition of his hearers called for it. " He 
avoided (to use the words of a justly honored writer of our own Church), narrow 
dogmatism and angry controversy, and laid greater stress on practical piety than an 
unfaithful orthodoxy." 

Dr. Heacock, while holding fast, the great substance of the evangelical theology, 
and preaching it without reserve, held himself somewhat free from the trammels of 
any theological system as such. The great Syrian preacher in his day, had not 
yet grown into such a thing, and your Pastor had grown out of it. His main 
interest was centered in a few vital truths of the Gospel : sin abounding; grace 
super abounding^ was the substance of his theology, and he taught in a published 
sermon which was received with some degree of suspicion and criticism, that grace 
so superabounded in Christ as to make the fall and the introduction of sin, with 
the introduction at the same time of a remedial gracious system, an unspeakably 
greater blessing to mankind than if Adam had stood the test. Had Dr. Heacock 
carried out a scheme which I have understood he sometimes revolved in his mind, 
of publishing his views on theology, I cannot doubt but we should have in it a 
noble monument of his genius ; of his independent and vigorous thinking ; and his 
profound penetration into the heart of the Gospel ; but it is not improbable also 
that we might have had an expression of views on some minor points so far diverg- 
ing from the received system, as to alarm at least the more sensitive guardians of 
the Church's orthodoxy. He thought intently, even painfully, on some of the great 
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not hesitate to betray the conflict in his mind ; but he had too much conscientious 
wisdom ever to disturb the minds of others or vex the peace of the Church by pub- 
lishing what did not rise to the dignity of convictions, but were mere doubts or 
speculations. It is to he hoped that no man worthy of a place, at least in the 
Christian ministry, so far parts with his prerogative as an intellectual being as to 
take down indiscriminately the entire body of any human system of opinion, but 
frequently brings every part to the test of " the only infallible rule of faith and prac- 
tice." A diligent reinvestigation, passage by passage, in the Word of God, of the 
mystery of the Trinity, or the nature and effects of the incarnation of the Divine 
Word, or the immateriality and separate existence of the soul, or of future retribu- 
tion, may be at any time becoming and fit for one who recognizes the supreme 
authority of Scripture ; and if he is led as the result, to question in his own mind, 
the validity of the Church interpretation on these points, and so to continue an 
humble and prayerful study of this subject, no harm will follow ; but to rush into 
type with doubts, to obtrude on the public speculations which have probably been 
exhaustively canvassed and dismissed by the Church as baseless ages ago, is a crim- 
inal folly of which no Christian minister ought to be capable. Nothing less than a 
clear, precise, carefully formed conviction can justify a minister in taking ground 
against the Church to which he has sworn allegiance. To think freely ; to pro- 
nounce slowly ; to print rarely, or never, ought to be the rule with every honest 
minister. 

Dr. Heacock entered Western Reserve College with his mind already fixed on 
the work of preaching the Gospel. His mother's wishes, his own vague conscious- 
ness of latent, undeveloped powers, and his religious convictions, all led to that 
conclusion, and that these constituted a clear "call to the ministry," I presume no 
one can doubt. He might certainly have served the cause of human weal in some 
other vocation. At the bar he would have transcended the fame of that brilliant 
jury-lawyer, his uncle by marriage, whose name in part he bore, Elisha Williams. 
In the perilous crisis through which our country has been called to pass, when she 
looked round her in her anguish for great men, strong for the right, to take her 
part, and too often found them lacking, he would have been a splendid champion 
in the Senate — a paladin like Roland in the field. But well did he serve the coun- 
try, and well did he champion the cause of humanity while engaged in the less 
strong and ambitious but happier work of preaching the Gospel. 

No conscientious young man passes through a course of preparation for the 
ministry without balancing carefully the question whether he is not called to leave 
country and friends, and go abroad to carry the Gospel to the heathen ? Perhaps 
the obligation to go has been sometimes too indiscriminately pressed on the minds 
of students — as, for instance, when they have been told that every man was bound 
to become a foreign missionary who could not make out a clear case of duty for 
staying at home. What portion of the great field, which in the world a man 
ought to occupy is to be decided, if decided intelligently and not under the influ- 
ence of mere urgency, or hasty enthusiasm, by various considerations connected 
with physical health, moral qualities, aptitude for acquiring language, demands for 
his services in this or that direction, etc., Dr. Heacock felt this subject pressing 
strongly upon his mind while in a course of study, and was for a long time almost 
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strongly in that direction, because he felt that illegitimate influence, domestic or 
other, might bias him the opposite way. Men often conscientiously choose wrong, 
precisely because they are afraid of chosing wrong. His devout mother would never 
have undertaken to set herself against a clearly made up conviction of duty in his 
mind. But after he began to preach, and the tokens became clearer of his pos- 
sessing great powers for usefulness as a minister of the Gospel at home, and espe- 
cially when first that promising older brother who had also studied for the ministry 
was taken away — by the same organic disease which has now after so long an inter- 
val terminated his life, and then another, in the full vigor and maturity of his 
powers, her heart clung so strongly to this third son that affection, joined with the 
judgment of friends, to forbid his tearing himself away. 

In the early Church entrance upon a monastic life occupied somewhat the same 
relative place as going upon a foreign mission does in the modern. Young men 
were attracted to this sphere of self-sacrifice by the same kind of influences and con- 
siderations. There were no doubt enthusiastic friends of monachism who would 
insist that every young man was bound to be a monk who could not prove that he 
was called to serve God in some other career. The young preacher of Antioch, 
John, was strongly wrought upon by such considerations. If he were not willing to 
leave mother and friends, to sacrifice every human affection, to count all things but 
loss for Christ, he was not worthy of Him. It would have been a sad mistake for 
this great future pulpit orator if he had actually been lead to identify following 
Christ with entering a monastry. 

The monastic life tended to narrow the intellect, to sour the temper, to encourage 
the growth of a blind fanaticism, and develope false views of Gospel justification. 
In a work John wrote, and long after " On the Ministry" (" De Sacendotio"), in the 
form of a dialogue with his friend Basil, he tells us here how he was weaned from 
this purpose. His mother, Antonia, already a widow, called him into her bed- 
chamber, the spot of his birth and of his cradled infancy, and entreated him not to 
leave her. "In the afflictions I have met with (she said) you have remained to me 
as my earthly hope and consolation ; I cannot stay here long to embarrass you in any 
of your plans or movements ; wait till I am laid by the side of your father in the 
graveyard ; then cross what seas, visit what lands you please, there will be none to 
hinder you, and do not think that I wish to lay any obstacle in the way of your pur- 
suing a career of usefulness and duty ; for, though many others may love you, there 
is none to whom your honor and happiness can be so dear as they are to me." To 
the same effect our young preacher's mother said to him, " I shall not be very long 
here to enjoy your society or contribute to your comfort ; wait till I am laid in the 
grave, and then if you still think it your duty to go abroad to the heathens, go." 
And who shall say that this was not a legitimate consideration to decide his choice ? 
True it is that when the question lies between obeying and disobeying Christ — ac- 
cepting or rejecting His Gospel, " whosoever loveth father or mother more than 
Him, is not worthy of Him ;" and then the choice must be that of the heroic young 
Christian mother who, immured in a dungeon, and with the fearful prospect of the 
amphitheatre before her, suffered her gray-haired pagan sire to kiss her hands and 
embrace her knees in vain, rather than go back to freedom and home at the expense 
of denying Christ. But the case is quite different when the question merely con- 
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question to be decided by the weighing of all proper considerations ; and that in this 
decision the judgment and feelings of a venerated mother are not to be taken into 
account, let them say who are ready to blame the Divine sufferer on the cross for 
giving almost his last thoughts and words to his mother. Dr. Heacock began his 
ministry here in the city of his birth, at the age of twenty-four years, preaching first 
for a few months to the little congregation at Black Rock ; and then, as he grew 
stronger, laying hold of that poor, decayed, unlucky enterprise, then known as Park 
Church, and setting to work to reconstruct it with better materials and better 
spiritual masonry, as a wise master-builder, from the foundations. Thirty-two years 
ago exactly, on the eighth of June, 1845, he preached his first sermon on this spot. 
Five months later he was installed Pastor by the Presbytery of Buffalo, and from 
that time, until he was taken from you, this has been the exclusive scene of his pas- 
toral labors ; an experience, I presume, entirely unique in the history of the ministry. 
I do not mean that there have not been many pastorates as long as his, some longer ; 
but that a young man just entering the ministry should be adopted by his fellow- 
citizens, who had known him from childhood, as their Pastor ; that they should cling 
to him with ever-growing admiration and love for thirty-two years, absolutely refus- 
ing, almost with indignation and resentment, any suggestion of his leaving them, 
and should finally surrender him only to the inevitable summons that called him 
away from pastorate and life at once. This is probably something quite unparalleled 
by any other experience. He was repeatedly solicited to take charge of large and 
important Churches in other cities as his reputation increased and became broader. 
Strong congregations elsewhere, looking about for pastors, fixed their minds on him. 
Some of their calls were so urgent and were prefaced with such warmth of purpose 
that he could not but take them into consideration One or two he kept for some time 
in suspense. He consulted his friends and brethren in the ministry before giving an 
answer. It sometimes looked as if he almost wanted to be advised to accept them. 
Yet I doubt whether he really ever seriously entertained any thought of doing so. 
When he was pressed too hard he sometimes broke off the negotiation very 
abruptly. One such instance happened in the case of a leading Church in a great 
Western city. A call was proffered him on the kindest and most flattering terms 
by letter, various members of the congregation writing to urge his acceptance. 
After such respectful consideration as so generous an offer deserved, Dr. Heacock 
declined it. Telegrams then followed, one after another, begging him to reconsider 
his decision. He replied to the same effect ; and then satisfied that he had chosen 
wisely, as he had deliberately and prayerfully, he felt relieved to think the matter 
was ended. Considerably to his surprise and annoyance, he was soon after waited 
on by a large committee to press the call in person. The thing was getting to be a 
little monotonous. This time he resolved there should be no mistaking his mean- 
ing. It would not do for me to quote here the very emphatic and wholly unprofes- 
sional phrase in which he clothed his refusal. The astonished committee were 
quite satisfied, and took their leave. It is true he might, as he sometimes seemed 
half inclined to think, when yet undetected disease was beginning to lay a heavy 
weight on his energies — it is true he might, under the stimulus of new demand in 
some swarming and stormy Western town, have exceeded, for a while, anything he 
felt able to do here. But it would only have been the spur to the noble racer who 
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His own later judgment, and that of all his brethren and friends, approved the 
choice by which he decided to stay here among the people of his love. 

The distinguished Oriental preacher, to whom I have referred, chose differently 
on an important occasion, and with disastrous results to his own happiness. He 
was born, as I have said, in Antioch, entered upon his ministry there, and preached 
for some years amid the enthusiastic love and admiration of his fellow-citizens. 
But Constantinople, like some great modern capitals, was looking about for brill- 
iant pulpit talents, and he was persuaded to accept an invitation to that city. It 
was the beginning of sorrow for him. His bold reproofs of fashionable sin ; his 
unsparing exposure of the vices of the court soon brought about a seism between 
him and the corrupt Church of the capital. A strong party was formed against 
him. He was charged with various offenses ; cited to trial, condemned for con- 
tumacy, deposed and driven from his Church, and died a broken-spirited and 
banished man. Often, no doubt, did his heart turn back to the beautiful city on 
the banks of the Orontes, the place of his birth and of his early successes in the 
ministry with inexpressible regret that delusive hopes of greater usefulness should 
ever have tempted him into the stormy life and intense corruptions of a great 
metropolis. That love for this city itself had much to do with deciding your Pastor 
against any overtures looking to his removal elsewhere, no one who knew him can 
doubt. He loved it as the scene of his parents' early trials and struggles, as the 
place of his own childish sports, as the burial spot of his kindred. He loved its 
streets, its wharves, the noble lake on which it reposes. Put him in a dancing 
yacht on the waters of the harbor with the tiller in his hand and he was all the boy 
again. I half believe that any residence elsewhere would have been only a place of 
exile. You will easily recall the truly poetic, as well as generous, language in which 
on his last anniversary, only a year ago, he spoke of the growth of the city. " I 
remember," he said, " the city of my birth and boyhood when her jacket was home- 
spun and her kirtle was lindsey. As she grew more refined and womanly her 
children clad her in silks, placed a crown upon her motherly forehead and called 
her a queen, the 1 Queen City of the Lakes ;' and now, these gowned and surpliced 
men have come and put a mitre above the crown. A mitred mother of more than 
100,000 souls, mays't thou be as godly as thou art goodly ; the patron of hundreds 
of Christian Churches and the protectress of thousands of Christian homes." And 
I am led by this to go on and speak of the catholic and Christian spirit in which 
he contemplated the religious prosperity of the city, not of his own particular 
Church, nor of his own denomination merely, but of the Church in the largest 
application of the term. He had his own opinion, of course, as to the merits of 
different religious systems ; but, practically, he took a very broad view and satisfied 
himself that even those with which he felt the least sympathy, were, on the whole, 
subserving the interests of the Christian cause. Staunch Protestant as he was, his 
views of the Romish system were not indiscriminately unfavorable ; and with the 
Romish clergy he was invariably on terms of kindly intercourse. It was, perhaps, 
partly the result of his hereditary love of hospitality ; but he had a very high opinion 
of the moral benefits of people eating good things together. A well-spread table, 
I fancy, he counted among the means of grace; and careful as he had to be, from 
his dyspeptic habit, of his own eating, no man could be more reckless than he was 
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death, enlarging his gastronomic sympathies beyond his own clerical circle, he pro- 
posed to his brethern that there should be given once a year, a truly catholic dinner, 
at which all the clergy of this city, Bishops and Presbyters, Rabbis and Pastors 
should be invited to feed together as one " happy family." Disputatious as he was 
— dearly loving an argument, and fighting it out to extremity with an intense ap- 
preciation of the pleasure of logical battle and of victory — he never engaged, I 
believe, in any public controversy. He would argue till midnight with extraordinary 
fertility and reasoning, with unimpassioned earnestness and physical demonstration, 
and never, under any circumstances, own beaten. But his logic drew no blood and 
left no scar. What he was in his own more immediate pastoral circle, his brethren 
here present will for long years to come, love to remember and repeat. It is a 
generous testimony of their love to him and their sympathy with you, that they have 
again spontaneously closed their own churches and come here to unite with you in 
this service. He honored and loved them all ; appreciated their various gifts, and 
rejoiced in their usefulness. I never heard him utter one unkind or disrespectful 
word of any one of them, but often the contrary. If he was questioned in regard to 
any of the resident, or more recently-come, pastors, he always spoke generously of 
them ; made allowance for any difficulties or disagreements they suffered under, and 
prophesied nothing but good of them in the future. They are well aware of the 
high ministerial comity and delicacy with which he recognized their own rights as 
pastors. I do not speak of it as anything rare or exceptional. I have no doubt 
they exemplified their dealings with him ; but it is worthy of being mentioned with 
honor wherever exhibited. It is little to say he never sought to increase his own 
congregation at the expense of his brethren. He never would permit any such 
thing where it could possibly be avoided. Various causes lead men to shift about 
their ecclesiastical stations this way and that way — a prejudice, a preference, local 
convenience, providential events, etc. ; and such transfers are sometimes, of course, 
legitimate and necessary, as between different Churches of the same order in the 
same city. Dr. Heacock's invariable rule was to discourage any persons leaving 
another Presbyterian congregation to unite with his. If a man had been brought 
to Christ under his ministry who naturally belonged elsewhere, he would say to him, 
" Go join your own proper Church ; you can do more good there than here ; go 
testify for Christ among those who have known you to be a neglecter of the great 
salvation." And there was sometimes the case where the accession would have 
been, in many respects, highly desirable. I presume, as I have already said, that 
the other Pastors acted under some principle of [honor] with him. A view of the 
Church, even as a denominational unity, would demand this course until we are able 
to rise to a still higher conception of the unity of the Church. The congregations 
of the same faith and order in a city should be regarded as one body, of which the 
pastors have a kind of collegiate charge — each concerned for the prosperity of the 
whole — and while each no doubt labors for the general good, and labors best by 
laboring specially for the upbuilding of his own flock, yet it should be a very 
subordinate question which congregation, out of the whole, any person or family 
may choose to join. The general rule will be that the particular Church with 
which Providence has already converted a man, has the first claim on his allegiance. 

In suggesting a comparison in many respects, of course, imperfect and superficial 
between your Pastor and the great pulpit orator of Antioch, I have special reference 
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The qualities that secured for Chrysostom such vast popularity during his life, 
and such undying renown continued, were his intense earnestness and boldness of 
expression, the richness of his style, the wealth of illustration and metaphor with 
which he ornamented his discourses, their adaptation to historical conditions, and 
their generally evangelical character; not that older John, who heralded the coming 
of the Lord, was a bolder preacher of righteousness ; a more pungent reprover of the 
vices of the court, the clergy, the soldiers and the people. His sermons were often 
long and elaborate, precomposed with great care ; but they were sometimes brief, 
and suggested in whole or in part by immediate and casual circumstances. He had 
studied the art of oratory with great masters, and both in respect to style, voice 
and action it may easily be believed that no more impressive exhibitions of pulpit 
eloquence were ever made in early or in modern times, than those which John the 
Presbyter made in the church at Antioch, or John the Patriarch, in the great 
cathedral at Constantinople. According to the corrupt fashion of the time, against 
which he himself in vain protested, his sermons were received with frequent demon- 
strations of applause, with stamping and clapping of hands. But, notwithstanding 
all this, the discourses of John, considered as Gospel sermons, fell far below the 
standard of modern evangelical preaching. They seldom proceeded from any clear 
or satisfactory interpretation of the text. They were far too figurative and alle- 
gorical ; they halt too much with external and superficial conditions, and too little with 
the fundamental principles of the Gospel ; they were wholly defective with regard 
to the ruin of man by sin, and the nature, necessity and source of regeneration, and 
with all the splendor of their rhetoric they seem to have had no influence in bring- 
ing the people to repentance. The fickle, fashionable orthodox believers of the 
time thronged to hear him in the morning, and with the same enthusiasm flocked 
into the theatre in the afternoon. Nothing that can be called a revival of religion 
seems to have attended Chrysostom's preaching. He made people angry, and got 
angry himself; indulged in personal reflections and vehement denunciations of sin, 
but sinners were not led by it to ask what they must do to be saved. Chrysostom 
was a transcendent " pulpit orator," but, as a preacher of the Gospel, I believe 
there is not a minister of Christ in this city that is not greater than he. The mod- 
ern evangelical sermon is distinguished in the first place by a careful exposition of 
the text, the result of diligent study of the original, with the aid of the best inter- 
preters. The text is then developed part after part, or a proposition is drawn from 
it and made the basis of discipline. The matter seldom relates to fasts or feasts or 
external observances or habits, but to the great principles involved in man's 
relation as a sinner to God and the Gospel of His son ; the sermon drives at a par- 
ticular point, and aims to fasten some definite impression on the hearers, and it is 
often attended with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power in the 
conversion of men to God. 

Such was the general character of your Pastor's sermons. Without being a pro- 
found or independent scholar in the original languages of Scripture, he was a 
conscientious student in them. He studied his text on his knees before God. He 
elaborated it in his mind by thought and perhaps by conversation with others ; 
when it was ali done but the writing, he- finished the mechanical part with great 
rapidity ; or, if he felt in his better moods, brought it forth unwritten from the full 
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that well-jointed sequence of ideas and topics, that natural unstudied cadence and 
melody of voice, those bursts of impassioned argument and appeal, which carried 
his best efforts up to near the ideal of the highest pulpit eloquence. The memory 
of his sermons still lingers in scores of sanctuaries. His tones of pathos or thun- 
der still echo in thousands of hearts. There are many in nearly all parts of your 
land who will remember him to their dying day as the grandest impersonation of 
the powers of the pulpit they ever beheld. There are many — how many the great 
day alone will reveal — and in many places, who will look back to the time when 
they received the Gospel from his lips as the turning point from which their faces 
were set toward Heaven. 

I am not in the least undertaking in this discourse to give a biography of Dr. Hea- 
cock ; nor am I any the more pretending to present a full character or critical estimate 
of him. I must entirely pass over many things on which some of you might desire 
me to dwell. On particular developments of his power, or particular incidents in 
his career, I can only select a few among a great variety of topics that urge them- 
selves in my mind. One brief, but to him most interesting episode, was his experi- 
ence as chaplain in the dark days that preceded the third and fourth of July. You 
know with what a passion of patriotism he threw himself from the beginning into 
the cause of his country. His prayers, his sermons, his platform speeches were felt 
as a power in helping nerve us up to the prosecution of the great struggle. Fra- 
ternal affection came in to strengthen his impulses. The 49th regiment was passing 
northward, with the noble 6th corps, to intercept the march of the Confederates 
upon Philadelphia. He had done everything he could except set the example of 
personal devotion in the field, and he thought the time had now come for that. The 
various divisions of the army of the Potomac were concentrating towards Gettys- 
burg ; the supreme hour of the struggle had come, and the country held its breath 
waiting for tidings ; " and so it was (says a chronicler of the time) that as the men 
marched swiftly through the darkness before the dawn, they communed together 
with low voices within the ranks, and said one to another, let us die to- 
gether this day, my brother, but let us not turn back, and afterwards they 
were silent, and their hearts were homeward, and they said within themselves, 
' God help us and this people.' " So the 74th marched swiftly southward, the men 
footsore and weary; and the stalwart chaplain marched by their side, cheering and 
comforting them. But the succor was unnecessary. The great wave of invasion 
had been already shattered on Cemetery Ridge, and the army of the brave but mis- 
taken Confederates was in full retreat across the Potomac. Two years after he was 
long hunting on the field of Spottsylvania for the relics of one of the dead of that 
fight, by whose side he now sleeps in yonder cemetery. Something I ought to say of 
Dr. Heacock as a Pastor. It is the part of his activities which I feel least able, 
from any personal knowledge, to do justice to, and at the same time it is that in 
regard to which there is the least that is discriminating to be said. Like his breth- 
ren, the other faithful and exemplary pastors of the city, he was a dear lover of 
little children ; a friend of the young men of his charge ; a son of consolation to 
the afflicted ; a clear, intelligent guide to the inquiring ; a sound scriptural casuist 
in all cases of conscience. His great ^ffectionateness of disposition ; his strong 
power of sympathy made his visits precious in the house of mourning, in the 
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pastor ever did. They seemed oftentimes to occupy his whole thoughts. His per- 
petual study was what more he could do for their good. How he could best reach 
this or that class, or person. For many of you he prayed, by name, over and over, 
and for long periods in his closet with almost an agony of solicitude for your salva- 
tion. He lamented and reproached himself that his ministry was not more fruitful 
of conversions. His joy when one of you was brought to Christ was the joy in the 
harvest, and as men rejoice when they gather the spoil. But I need not withhold 
the statement that even for those who were hopefully converted to God and brought 
into covenant with the Church he felt often a painful solicitude. He thought the 
standard of living, among the members of his flock, far below what it ought to be. 
He was pained and almost discouraged at what he thought was the deference to 
worldly maxims and habits, the too great lack of Christian courage and enthusiasm 
in the Church. He thought of various methods and tried some for securing greater 
holiness of living among Christians. No doubt every faithful pastor is grieved with 
the same experiences. There is often room for regret. But when we look back at 
the condition of the Church in earlier and what are sometimes represented as purer 
periods, we can find still a good deal to be thankful for. The Christians of Antioch 
and Constantinople in the time of Chrysostom, " in good and regular standing," 
(as we say) not only practiced many of the characteristic corruptions of the Church 
of Rome, such as invoking the saints and praying to images, but their morals were 
of an absurd, infamous character. They flocked to the theatre where grossly inde- 
cent spectacles were exhibited; they looked on with delight while men were torn 
to pieces in combats with wild beasts ; drinking to intoxication was common ; they 
swore in the way that is most painful and shocking to our ears — by the name of 
Christ. I say nothing about other things — we could draw indeed a precisely similar 
picture of the Christian life of to-day, if we regarded the entire population as 
Christian (as was the case in Chrysostom's time) and then founded our description 
as the character of the most godless and profane part of them — only I ought to say 
that some of the men who did some of these things, such as profane swearing, hoped 
not only for Christians, but for saints and eminent ones. Chrysostom's soul was in 
bitterness at this degradation of the Christian name. He addressed himself most 
energetically to the work of reform. He preached with a severity of which the 
modern pulpit furnishes us parallel, against the offences, against swearing, against 
theatre-going, against drunkenness. The Christians received his splendid periods 
with sounds of applause and went on sinning. 

In his anxiety to bring about a higher standard of holy living in this Church, 
your Pastor, a few years ago, with the concurrence of the session, introduced into 
the Church covenant specific pledges against certain popular customs. The wisdom 
of this attempt to tie up the liberty of Christians in respect to things in themselves 
indifferent, was often a matter of discussion between him and his brethren. He 
defended his course with his usual energy and determination ; and yet with a dis- 
tinct perception of the difficulties attending it. After a few years of trial it was, I 
think, justly dropped. The objections to the imposition of any such additional 
terms of communion, are that if we begin besides the requirement of credible 
evidence of piety and the promise of godly living, to stipulate for the doing or the 
avoiding of this or that particular thing as a condition of Church fellowship, we 
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cretion of different Churches. If we may demand a pledge not to do one thing, the 
next Church may equally demand a pledge not to do another thing. Each session 
will have a different standard of piety, and the communion of the Churches will be 
wholly broken up. But a broader and more fundamental objection to the method, 
is this : That whatever it may seriously aim at in the way of elevating the standard 
of holy living, its actual tendency must be the other way. It is introducing a lower 
standard of piety as subsidiary to a higher. It is exemplifying what we mean by 
holy living by the requiring of Christians to abstain from certain outward acts 
which, it is assumed, are inconsistent with common morality. First in demand in 
order to commence in the Church that a man shall give satisfactory evidence that 
he loves the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we "engage him to sanctify the Lord's day, 
to assemble with the people of God on the Sabbath, and at the stated and occasional 
meetings of the Church during the week, and to discharge all their duties by which 
God may be glorified, and the religion of the Bible be extended and established 
among men." We then proceed, " and you furthermore solemnly promise that so 
long as you shall remain a member of this Church, you will not lie nor cheat, drink 
to intoxication nor rob on the highway." The specifications, you observe, fall 
immeasurably below the plan of the general rule, and the inevitable result must be 
after a whole, taking the specifications as examples, illustrating the meaning and 
extent of the general law, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but right- 
eousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. The only proper term of com- 
munion is credible, enduring piety, and the only proper covenant to be required is 
in general a pledge of holy living, leaving the Church to divide in each particular 
instance, whether this or that act is incompatible with hopeful piety, or an infringe- 
ment of the promise of a Christian life. 

I conclude that it was some such considerations as these that led the Pastor and 
other officers of the Church to drop from the covenant the specific pledges referred 
to, and I have regarded it as a marked instance of the wisdom and moderation 
which characterized him, notwithstanding all his determination in carrying out his 
own views, that after a fair trial', he should have concurred with the session in 
returning to the covenant as it previously stood, and I ought to add a word here 
in regard to the unbroken and beautiful harmony which for so many years sub- 
sisted between the Pastor and the officers and members of this Church. I have 
yet to learn that the first symptom of alienation or loss of confidence ever appeared 
between them. The session is well known to have been, and to be composed of 
gentlemen of marked intelligence and culture, of decided convictions and sufficient 
power of expressing them. I take it for granted that differences of opinion some- 
times prevailed in their consultations, and were sustained with earnestness on one 
side and the other ; but I never heard that they led to unkindness of feeling, or to 
the least break of confidence between them. A pastorate of thirty-two years with 
not only unabated but evergrowing devotion between Pastor and people, is equally 
honorable to both. That the congregation has been somewhat formed and shaped 
by the Pastor, as the children of the Sunday School have grown up under his eye 
and hand into the noble band of young men and women who have surrounded him, 
and then into the substantial heads of families composing the congregation, is true. 
Many of you who are in middle life, or past, can remember no other Pastor but 
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the relations between Pastor and people to a marriage, and regarded the 'ties as 
sound and indissoluble. A Bishop should be the husband of one wife, and but one. 
This has been a case of the purest ecclesiastical monogamy ; one in which the 
affections never wandered; where no strife disturbed the domestic tranquility; 
where the numerous household all dwell in loving harmony ; where death only sun- 
dered the relation. The perfect and supreme flower of this beautifully-blended 
life was put forth, when broken by disease, with but faint hopes of ever being able 
again to enter the pulpit, he offered you his resignation, and you promptly and 
unequivocally refused to accept it. Neither of you had then any idea that his life 
was so soon to terminate. It might, for aught you knew, be long protracted, in 
feebleness and suffering. But long or short, you were resolved he should die your 
Pastor. It would have been no reproach to you if you had consented to his request. 
I have known congregations, who in similar circumstances have done so, even when 
it threw their pastor off to indigence ; but it was a splendid honor to yourselves 
and to him, that you refused, and the thought of it is now, and ever will be among 
your happiest and proudest recollections. 

I have but one more parallel to make between the great preacher of Antioch 
and your Pastor, and that relates to a single incident at the very close of their 
lives. In administering the communion last Sunday to his people for the first time 
since his death, I observed that he himself among his very last acts seemed to be 
partaking — I cannot pretend to say whether consciously or not — of the Lord's 
supper. He called in a strong and earnest voice for nourishment, and when it was 
brought him, he partook simply of bread and of wine. It may be a mere fancy (as 
I then observed), but I cannot help thinking that there was in his mind a thought of 
the dying Christ, that in the thought he desired to eat of that passover with you 
before he suffered, and that the act was of the nature of a sacramental communion 
with his people and his Saviour. I paralelled this with the dying act of the great 
German Theologian Schleiermacher, who, with his family around him, waiting for 
his parting breath, suddenly rallied, and raised himself in his bed, called for the 
sacrament, and pronouncing in strong tones the words of contrition and of confes- 
sion, partook of the bread and of the cup himself, handed them to friends, and then 
fell back and expired. But the same thing occurred in the dying experience of 
Chrysostom. On the 14th September of the year 407, he was journeying in exile 
and in suffering through that part of Armenia which is now trampled down by 
contending Turk and Russian, when the hand of death arrested him. Feeling his 
end draw near, he called for the sacramental emblems. He took the bread and the 
chalice in his hands, and thinking, perhaps, without reviewal of his career of vicis- 
situde, of his triumphs and his reverses, of his errors and his sufferings, above ail 
of his sins and his atoning triumphing Saviour, he cried aloud, " Glory be to God 
for all ; amen !" and when he had said this he fell asleep. It only remains to me 
to attempt a brief character of your lost Pastor, our lost friend and brother, and it 
is the most difficult part of the whole. I cannot trust my own feelings when I 
come to speak of him personally. I by no means claim that he had any monopoly 
of the highest gifts for usefulness in the ministry. There are among his brethren 
men of broader culture than he, harder students, better scholars. The activity and 
independent vigor of his mind made him less dependent on books than others. 
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books describing or making a part of the history of religious thought — theology, 
philosophy — these he dwelt on and mastered, and made his own. He was not an 
assenter in anything, but a bold questioner, who challenged his author at every 
point, and only used him to start inquiries, in which he arrived at very different or 
even opposite conclusions. I have referred already to his love of argument. It was a 
passion with him, as his brethren in the ministry particularly know. He would 
argue as Benvolis would quarrel, about anything. If it were the interpretation of 
a passage in Romans, or a distinction in metaphysical theology, or a question of 
political economy or national policy, all the better ; but for lack of these, a verse 
of Tennyson, the pronunciation of a word, or any trivial matter of everyday life, 
would do. His interest lay not in the game but in the pursuit, and whatever he 
argued he argued with all his might. This belonged to the generally positive and 
determined character of his mind. He was of the most unflinching and dauntless 
courage. He held to his opinions very strongly. He was capable of strong passion — 
of strong indignation — as every great and noble nature must be. But he had no petty 
spites, no jealousies, no cherished resentments. A more perfectly sweet and genial 
nature dwell in no human bosom. He was disinterested and generous in everything ; 
generous in his feelings ; generous of his praise ; generous of his money. The idea 
of his doing a small or mean thing was inconceivable. What he was in his family I 
cannot venture to speak of. What he was as a friend you all know — cordial, sym- 
pathetic, forgetful of self. He fully exemplified the Apostolic precept, " In honor pre- 
ferring one another." With all the praises that had been lavished upon him he was 
not in the least degree spoiled. He quietly took the place that belonged to him, or 
was assigned him, without a particle of small vanity, conceit, or apparent self-con- 
sciousness. In society his presence was a charm. All women loved him, and all 
men. In any company where his tall form loomed he was the center of the most ani- 
mated talk, the warmest greetings, the heartiest laughter. He often told a story 
admirably ; and never in his life, I believe, told one that he would not have been 
willing to tell before his mother or his sisters. 

His life-long friend, Dr. Lord, who has preceded him by so short an interval to 
heaven, on welcoming him back to this place from his foreign tour, expressed the 
conviction that however it might be with others, he, at least, had not been hurt by 
going to Europe. He had not been in the slightest degree hurt. He brought back 
with him no affectations.no delusions, no surface pedantry of criticism, no unevangel- 
ical liberality ; but it is a legitimate and proper result of mingling with other peo- 
ples, observing their manners, joining in their worship, to enlarge our sympathies 
with mankind, and broaden somewhat our charity. Dr. Heacock returned from 
abroad, not a whit less orthodox, devout, spiritual ; but perhaps a little more cath- 
olic and more appreciative of the good there may be in other forms of worship, 
than he had been before. 

His observation of the wretched brutality of the Turkish administration — the 
stories he heard on the spot of almost incredible oppression — shaped his general 
hatred of all cruelty into an intense disgust against the barbarism of the Ottoman 
government. It was no narrow ecclesiastical sympathy with the corrupt and per- 
secuting Russo-Greek Church, but simply a connection of the intolerable wrong 
in this age of the world of such a system as that of Turkey in Europe that enlisted 



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his sympathies on the side of the czar. " I fairly ached," he said in a public ad- 
dress, " to see the claws of the Russian bear in the back of that turkey." 

I am well assured that to a more competent orator you would willingly listen 
much longer on this theme. But I have detained you quite as long as I at least 
can venture to do. One last word remains to be said. It relates to your friend and 
Pastor's Christian character. This was the crowning beauty and glory of the man. 
That he was a true Christian, I am sure no human being can doubt. In preaching 
he spoke not only of what he had heard, but of what he had seen, had felt, and his 
hands had handled of the word of life. In prayer how near he drew to God ! 
what humility, what tenderness, what an entire absence of all attempt to turn fine 
phrases ! How prominent Christ was in all his ministrations ! He preached and 
talked and lived Christ, and yet he was as free from all cant, all sanctimoniousness, 
all Phariseeism, as any man I ever knew in my life. He made religion cheerful, 
beautiful, attractive. An influence to shed a sunshine over one's days, and to 
brighten their close with a glory that shaded off imperceptibly into the radiance of 
heaven. 

He has not taken all that is strong or all that is beautiful with him to the grave. 
There are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. There still remains eloquent 
preachers, exemplary pastors, his peers in many things, his superior, perhaps, in 
some ; but these, his brethren, who knew him best, will join with me in saying yes, 
and in their generous love will go beyond me in saying that take him for all and 
all they never knew his like ; a more robust and vigorous mind, a stronger charac- 
ter, a sweeter temper, a heart more full of generosity and affection ; a more resist- 
less eloquence, a happier and more successful life, a more triumphant and glorious 
end. He has been taken away in the midst of his days ; but his life may be said 
to have been rounded and complete. He was kindly spared protracted suffering and 
helplessness. He has died at the zenith of his fame, and if he has left a void here 
which it is impossible to fill, he has left a memory which is still and long will be a 
living power, and he has added a glorious member to the ranks of the first-born 
who are written in heaven. 

The closing prayer was made by Rev. Mr. Daly ; the hymn, " There is a Land 
of Pure Delight," was sung, and the benediction was pronounced by Rev. Dr. 
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HISTORICAL. 

Continued from pages 199 and 200 and brought down to the seventh of October, when Rev. Mr. 
Parsons entered upon his permanent pastorate. 

Prof. Hopkins occupied the pulpit morning and evening of May 13th, and Rev. 
M. W. Stryker, of Auburn, N. Y., May 20th. 

On Wednesday evening, May 23d, at the close of the prayer meeting, Elder John 
Otto moved that a committee of four be appointed to complete our Church history, 
to embody also the funeral and memorial exercises of our deceased Pastor, naming 
W. M. Knight, George L, Squier, Henry H. Hale and Charles G. Brundige. 

Prof. Hopkins preached morning and evening of Sunday, May 27th. 

Lecture, preparatory to Communion, was given on Wednesday evening, May 30th, 
by Rev. D. R. Frazer of the First Church. 

The regular Communion services were observed on Sunday, June 3d, Prof. Hop- 
kins officiating. Preaching in the evening by Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Rochester, 
N. Y. 

The Church Memorial Services, in honor of our late Pastor, were held on Sunday, 
June ioth, being the thirty-second anniversary of his pastorate. (See page 226.) 

Mr. Edward Bristol was ordained as an Evangelist by the Presbytery of Buffalo 
on the evening of June 14th. Bible readings were given by Rev. Henry M. Parsons, 
of Boston, Mass., in the chapel of Lafayette Street Church in the afternoon of June 
1 6th, who also preached morning and evening on Sunday, June 17th 

Rev. Edward Bristol occupied the pulpit Sunday, June 24th ; Rev. J. Clement 
French, D. D., of Brooklyn, July 1st ; Prof. Hopkins July 8th and 15th, and Rev. 
Albert H. Plumb of Boston, July 22d. 

Rev. Henry M. Parsons filled the pulpit very acceptably on three successive 
Sabbaths, viz., July 29th ; August 5th (Communion) and August 12th, giving also 
the preparatory lecture Wednesday evening, August 1st. 

The pulpit was occupied on the 19th and 26th of August by Rev. Stephen M. 
Hopkins, of Columbus, Ohio, and by Rev. Dr. Chester, September 2d. 



Monday evening, September 3d, pursuant to a call by the Session, a meeting of the 
Church and congregation was held in the chapel, for the purpose of electing a pastor 
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rev. G. W. Heacock. 

Rev. Albert T. Chester acted as moderator and John Gowans as secretary. 
Meeting opened with prayer by the moderator. 

The first question being, "Are we ready to elect a pastor?" was answered in the 
affirmative by a standing vote of 117 to 46. John Gowans and W. W. Brown acted 
as tellers. 

Rev. Henry M. Parsons, of Boston, Mass., was nominated by Elder George L. 
Squier, and Rev. Melancthon Wolsey Stryker, of Auburn, N. Y., by Elder John 
Otto. After full and free discussion, a ballot was taken, when 187 votes were cast, 
of which Rev. Mr. Parsons received 149, Rev. Mr. Stryker 33, and 5 scattering. On 
motion of Elder John Otto, the election of Rev. Mr. Parsons was made unanimous. 

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On motion of Oren G. Nichols — By the Elders, Trustees and the Supply Commit- 
tee, on behalf of the Church and congregation. 
A salary of four thousand dollars was then voted. 

Mr. Henry Childs moved that a vote of thanks be tendered the Moderator for the 
very able and impartial manner in which he had conducted the meeting. Carried 
unanimously. 

The Moderator congratulated the society on the very happy conclusion at which 
they had arrived, and said that the whole temper of the meeting was what might be 
expected of the congregation of Dr. Heacock. 

Adjourned, by singing the long metre Doxology, and Benediction by the 
Moderator. 



Rev. Mr. Condict, of Jamestown, N. Y., preached for us Sunday, September 9th, 
and Rev. George H. Ward, of Dansville, N. Y., on the 16th. 

On Friday evening, September 21st, Rev. Mr. Parsons met the committee, which 
had been appointed to extend to him the call of the Church, and signified his inten- 
tion to accept, and expressed the hope of being able to commence his labors with 
us on the first Sabbath of October, although the formal action of the Presbytery 
upon the call could not be had until a subsequent time. 

He also occupied the pulpit on Sunday, September 23d, and Prof. Hopkins on 
the 30th. A notice was read from the pulpit, that a meeting for the election of 
elders would be held in the chapel on the evening of Thursday, October 4th. 

The next Sunday being Communion-day, the lecture preparatory was given by 
Rev. Charles Wood of the Central Church, on Wednesday evening, October 3d. 

October 4th, Thursday — Pursuant to the notice, a meeting was held in the chapel 
for the purpose of electing a Bench of Elders. 

The Church being without a pastor, Rev. Charles Wood of the Central Church 
was invited to act as moderator. There being some preliminary business to trans- 
act, Elder John Otto acted as temporary chairman and W. M. Knight as secretary. 

Mr. Joseph Guild opened the meeting with prayer. 

Mr. W. M. Knight offered the following preamble and resolutions : 

In order to introduce a more perfect system in keeping the .session minutes, and 
to enable the clerk of the session to obtain more fully and accurately all the facts 
which go to make up the current history of the Church, spiritually and financially, 
and that all these facts may be handed in from all the organizations within the 
Church prior to the Annual Church Meeting in January ; therefore, 

Resolved, That the Annual Church Meeting be held hereafter on the third Wed- 
nesday in January of each year. 

Resolved, That the time of holding the election, for the choice of Elders, be fixed 
for the second Wednesday in January of 1881, and on the same day of each year 
thereafter. 

Resolved, That we respectfully request of all the societies and organizations in 
and connected with our Church, to hold their annual meetings either in December 
or in the first week in January, as best suits their convenience, so that full reports 
of their proceedings may be made in time, and that the secretaries of all these 
various societies be hereby requested to hand in to the clerk or treasurer of the 



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session, a concise report of their proceedings for each year, last past ; also, a state- 
ment of moneys raised, and by what means, and the amounts disbursed, and for 
what purpose ; also the names of their officers for the ensuing years. 

Resolved, That we now proceed to the election of nine Elders — four in the place 
of our present session, and five other persons to serve as such for the terms of three, 
four and five years, from the second Wednesday in January, 1878 — their term to 
commence at their date of ordination, to be divided into three classes. The term 
of the first class of three to be fixed for the twelfth day of January, 1881 ; of the 
second class for the eleventh day of January, 1882, and of the third for the tenth 
day of January, 1883. 

On motion of Henry Childs, it was resolved that the three classes of Elders be 
arranged alphabetically as regards the names of members ; that is, the three whose 
names are first in the alphabet will terminate January 12, 1881, and so on. 

Also the following : 

That, as it is thought expedient to change the time of holding the annual meeting 
of the society from the first Tuesday in June to the second Wednesday in January, 
a committee of three be named by the chair to take the necessary steps towards 
effecting such a change. 

Elder Otto, the chairman, appointed Henry Childs, L. L. Lewis and W. M. 
Knight. 

Rev. Mr. Wood now taking the chair as moderator these resolutions were taken 
up seriatim and passed unanimously. 

W. M. Knight now offered the following : 

That in order to have the action about to be taken perfectly spontaneous, resolved 
that we now proceed to take an informal ballot. 

On motion of Henry Childs, Messrs. Board and Sawn were appointed tellers. 

The vote being taken and declared, John Gowans moved that the nine highest on 
the list be declared unanimously elected. Adopted, resulting as follows : 

Charles H. Baker, John Otto, George L. Squier, Charles G. Brundige, Samuel 
N. Lawrence, Willard M. Knight, Edwin G. Sawn, Thomas Struthers and Lewis 
H. Brown. 

Adjourned by prayer from the moderator. 



Rev. Henry M. Parsons, having signified his acceptance of the call extended to 
him by this Church and congregation, commenced his engagement on Sunday, Oct. 
7th, officiating at the Communion service in the morning, and preaching in the 
evening. To-day was observed the 166th Communion since the organization of the 
Church, 163 of which occurred during the life-time of Dr. Heacock. 

We now close the history of the Church, and of Dr. Heacock's pastorate, bring- 
ing it down to the second epoch, which opens with the opening pastorate of Rev. 
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ACTION OF THE BUFFALO PRESBYTERY IN REGARD TO THE 
LATE DR. HEACOCK. 

Memorial. 

At the meeting of the Buffalo Presbytery, held at Fredonia on the 16th inst, the 
following was submitted by a committee appointed to prepare it, and was adopted : 

The committee to which was assigned the duty of bringing in a minute to express 
the feelings of the presbytery in view of the recent death of, Rev. Dr. Heacock, 
report recommending the following : 

The Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, D. D., our dearly beloved brother, and pastor 
of the Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, rested from his earthly labors 
on Sabbath morning, May 6, 1877. 

Born and reared within the bounds of this Presbytery, and educated and intro- 
duced into the Christian ministry under its care, and throughout his ministerial life 
connected with this body, he furnished a very noteworthy exception to the general 
rule, " A prophet is not without honor save in his own country, and in his own 
house ;" for his native city ever delighted to do him honor ; and in that city he was 
a popular, beloved, and successful pastor for some thirty years. 

While our first feeling, in view of his death, was that of having suffered an afflic- 
tion of uncommon severity, and a loss almost irreparable, we bow with sorrowing 
submission to the stroke that has bereaved us, assured that no man is necessary to 
the Church of God, and thankful to Christ, the head of the Church, for raising up 
and continuing with us so long a man whose upright life and godly example, whose 
eloquent voice and able ministry, whose noble testimony and philanthropic aims, 
whose memorable attacks upon giant wrongs, whose loving labors in scenes of re- 
vival, whose firmness, fearlessness, gentleness, generosity, with the other qualities that 
go to make up a complete Christian manhood, did so much to honor the Church he 
served, and to advance the general cause of Christianity in the world. 

William Waith, 
Isaac Riley, 
J. H. Plumb, 

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SUMMARY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY 
OF LAFAYETTE STREET CHURCH. 

First sermon preached by Rev. G. W. Heacock in the Park Church June 8, 1845. 
The name of Park Church changed to Lafayette Street Church October 16, 1845. 
Rev. G. W. Heacock called to be its Pastor October 17, 1845. 
Accepted the call, and was installed October 19, 1845. 
The old church edifice burned March 11, 1850. 
The Pastor absent three months in Europe in 1859. 
The lot, 35 feet front, purchased on Washington street, April, 1861. 
A call was extended by the North Church of this city to Dr. Heacock to become 
its Pastor, June, 1861. 

Present church edifice built in 1862. 

The Pastor joined the 94th Regiment in Pennsylvania in 1863. 
The largest number admitted to the church for any one year, 1864. ^ 
Book-rack and contribution boxes put in the seats, 1864. 
Church tinted and painted, organ purchased, 1868. 
Dr. Heacock three months in California in the fall of 1869. 
Twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Heacock's pastorate, 1870. 
Last communion service previous to Pastor's tour to Europe, October 6, 1S72. 
Dr. Heacock embarked for Europe and the East, November, 1872. 
Rev. C. P. H. Nason filled the pulpit from November, 1872 — twenty months — 
to May, 1874. 

Dr. Heacock returned from Europe May, 1874. 

The west foundation wall of the church lowered seventeen feet, 1875. 

The grade of the streets lowered and repaved, 1876. 

Our Pastor gave up active duty November, 1876. 

Rev. James A. Daly preached from January to May, 1S77. 

Dr. Heacock tenders his resignation — not accepted, April 4, 1877. 

Dr. Heacock died, after a painful and lingering illness, May 6, 1877. 

Funeral of Dr. Heacock May 10, 1877. 

Memorial service at the church, June 10, 1877. 

Election of Henry M. Parsons to the pastorate of the Church, September 3, 1877. 
Rev. Henry M. Parsons entered upon the pastorate October 7, 1877. 
Installation of Rev. Henry M. Parsons, November 1, 1877. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



PRESENT ORGANIZATION. 

OCTOBER, 1877. 



Rev. HENRY MARTYN PARSONS, Pastor. 
aSeuci) of 2Ettrers. 

Class 1. H Charles H. Baker, Charles G. Brundige and Lewis H. Brown, 
elected October 4, 1877. Terms expire on the 12th of January, 1881. 

Class 2. II John Otto, II Samuel N. Lawrence and Willard M. Knight, elected 
October 4, 1877. Terms expire on the 11th of January, 1882. 

Class 3. II G-eorge L. Squler, Edwin G. Sawn and Thomas Struthers, elected 
October 4, 1877. Terms expire on the 10th of January, 1883. 

W. M. Knight, Clerk. 

Edwin G. Sawn, Treasurer from Jan. 1, 1878. 

asoartr of trustees. 

HENRY CHILDS, President 

JOHN GOWANS, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Loran L. Lewis, to second Tuesday of January, 1879. 

Alexander Brush, to second Tuesday of January, 1879. 

Willard W. Brown, to second Tuesday of January, 1879. 

CoRNELrus M. Horton, to second Tuesday of January, 1880. 

Joseph P. Dudley, to second Tuesday of January, 1880. 

John Gowans, to second Tuesday of January, 1880. 

Henry Childs, to second Tuesday of January, 1881. 

Henry H. Hale, to second Tuesday of January, 1881. 

John L. Alberger, to second Tuesday of January, 1881. 



Organist. 

James Biles, Sexton. Resides at Central School. 

J. Albert Bixby, 1 

Howard Winship, . . . , > Ushers. 



William H. Arthur 



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" Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is ; but exhort- 
ing one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Heb. x, 25. 

Sabbath Morning Service at 10:30 o'clock. 
" Evening " " 7:30 o'clock. 

Week Day Evening Service (October 1st to April 1st), at 7:30 o'clock. 
" " " " (April 1st to October 1st) at 7:45 o'clock. 

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered on the first Sabbath morn- 
ing of February, April, June, August, October and December. 

Lecture Preparatory to Communion is given on the Wednesday evening 
preceding each Communion. 

Regular Meeting of the Session is held the last Monday evening of every 
month. 

Regular Seasons of Communion occur on the first Sabbath morning of Feb- 
ruary, April, June, August, October and December. 

Regular Meeting, to receive applicants for admission to the Church, on the 
Monday evening preceding the Communion. 

Baptism of the Children of the Church is administered on the Sabbath morn- 
ing following the Communion. 

Monthly Concert of Prayer for Missions is held on the first Wednesday 
evening of each month. 

General Church Prayer Meeting, on the other Wednesday evenings of each 
week. 

Young People's Prayer Meeting, on each Sunday evening from 6:30 to 7:30. 

Young Men's Association, meets the second Tuesday of each month. Annual 
meeting for the election of officers, second Tuesday in December. 

Cordon of Temperance, meets the last Friday of each month. Annual meet- 
ing for the election of officers, the last Friday in December. 

Woman's Prayer Meeting, on Thursday of each week at 3 :30 p. m. 

Young Ladies' Prayer Meeting, on Thursday of each week at 4:30 p. m. 

Woman's Missionary Society, Annual Meeting first week in April, and quar- 
terly. 

Ladies' Association of this Church, Annual Meeting on the last Tuesday in 
December. 
Church Sabbath School at 12 m. 
Christian Band, first Sunday of each month, 4 p. m. 
Milnor Street Mission School at 2 p. m. 

The Annual Church Meeting is held on the third Wednesday evening of Jan- 
uary of each year. 

The Annual Meeting of the Society, for the election of Trustees, is held on 
the second Tuesday in J anuary of each year. 
Annual Renting of Pews takes place on the last Monday evening in December. 



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meceptton of Jftemfirah 

Satisfactory evidence of a Christian experience and character, a 
cordial and an. unreserved profession of faith in Christ as their only 
Saviour, or a regular certificate of dismission from some other Evan- 
gelical Church, are the usual requisites for admission to membership 
to this Church. 

We consider it to be desirable, however, that those who enter our 
communion should be in sympathy with Presbyterian order and 
doctrine, as taught in our churches or stated in our catechism, setting 
forth the truth, as we understand it to be given in God's Word — our 
only authoritative guide. 

Statement by the Pastor. 

At the regular meeting of the Session, the following-named persons 
have been propounded for fellowship with us on profession of their 
faith in Christ. 

{The names being read, the persons come forward^ 

Articles of jFatti) antr i&obcnant. 

Dearly Beloved : 

You have now presented yourself in this public manner, before 
God, his people, and the World, to take his covenant upon you — to 
confess Jesus Christ before men — to testify your faith and hope and 
joy in his religion — practically to condemn your former life, together 
with the whole world, as lying in wickedness — unreservedly to dedi- 
cate yoiLrself to the service of your Creator, and to enter into solemn 
covenant with his visible people. You are about to profess supreme 
love to God, sincere contrition for all your sins of heart and life, and 
faith unfeigned in Jesus Christ. May the Spirit of God fill your 
heart while you engage in these duties. 

The following summary of the faith once delivered to the saints, is 
held and taught by this Church : 

Confession of Faith. 

Article I. — We believe that the Bible, comprising the Old and 
New Testaments, is the Word of God, dictated by the inspiration of 
his Spirit, and our only rule of faith and practice. 



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Article II. — We believe that there is one only living and true 
God, subsisting in three co-equal persons, the Father, the Son, and 
Holy Ghost, self-existent and infinite in every perfection — the Creator, 
Preserver and Governor of the universe. 

Article III. — We believe that man was created in a state of 
perfect holiness, but that he fell from this state by sinning against 
God. 

Article IV. — We believe that man, as a sinner, deserves the 
wrath and curse of God; that God could not consistently restore him 
to his favor without an atonement ; and that Jesus Christ, the second 
person in the Godhead, has in our nature offered himself a sacrifice 
for sin upon the cross, so that God can now be just and the justifier 
of him which believeth in Jesus. 

Article V. — We believe that the atonement made by Jesus Christ 
has opened the only door of hope to our guilty race ; that salvation 
is freely offered to sinners in the Gospel; that all who truly repent of 
sin, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be saved; and that 
those who reject Christ and his salvation, will perish through their 
own impenitence and unbelief. 

Article VI. — We believe that all men, till renewed by the divine 
Spirit, are under the influence of the " carnal mind, which is enmity 
against God," and that without regeneration or a change of heart, 
no sinner can be saved. 

Article VII. — We believe that a saving change is wrought in the 
heart of the sinner by the Spirit of God; and that this change is 
effected in a manner perfectly consistent with the freedom and re- 
sponsibility of man; that while pardon and eternal life are tendered 
to all through that propitiation which has been offered for the sins of 
the world — and while all, if left to themselves, would continue, 
through their own fault, to reject this great salvation, the Spirit, in 
the sovereignty of his operations, and according to the purpose of 
God, inclines the sinner to the exercise of repentance unto life, and 
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Article VIII. — We believe that those who are renewed by the 
Spirit, and pardoned and justified through the blood of Christ, are 
kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 



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Article IX. — We believe that the children of God are "created 
in Christ Jesus unto good works," and that a renewed heart will 
evince itself in various acts and duties of an obedient life. 

Article X. — We believe that any number of Christians, duly 
organized, constitute a Church of Christ, the special ordinances of 
which are Baptism and the Lord's Supper; that Baptism is to be ad- 
ministered to such believing adults as have not been baptised, and to 
their households ; and that a profession of holy love to the Lord 
Jesus Christ is justly required of all who are permitted to partake of 
the supper. 

Article XI. — We believe that Jesus Christ will appear at the end 
of time, to raise the dead and judge the world; (that all changes in 
moral character which are incident to a state of probation, will then 
cease;) that the righteous will then be received into life eternal, and 
the wicked will go away into everlasting punishment. 

To these declarations of Christian doctrine, as far as you appre- 
hend them, you give your considerate and cordial assent. 

\_Here Baptism is administered.] 

You will now enter into solemn Covenant with this church. 

The Covenant. 

And now, in the presence of God, angels and men, you do sol- 
emnly avouch the Lord Jehovah to be your God and portion, the 
object of your supreme love and delight, and the Lord Jesus Christ 
to be your Saviour from sin and death; your Prophet to instruct you, 
your priest to atone and intercede for you, and your King to rule, 
protect and enrich you, and the Holy Spirit to be your illuminator, 
sanctifier, comforter and guide, looking to him for light, grace and 
peace; unto this triune God — this wonderful name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, into which we are baptised, — 
you do now, without reserve, give yourself away, in a covenant never 
to be revoked, to be his willing servant forever, to observe all his 
commandments, and all his ordinances, in the sanctuary, in the family, 
and in the closet. You engage to sanctify the Lord's day, to assemble 
with the people of God on the Sabbath, and at the stated and occa- 
sional meetings of the Church during the week, for the purposes of 



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instruction and devotion, as opportunity may afford, and to discharge 
all those duties by which God may be glorified and the religion of the 
Bible extended and established among men. You do also bind your- 
self by covenant to this Church, to watch over us in the Lord ; to 
seek our purity, peace and edification, and conscientiously to submit 
to the doctrine, government and discipline of Christ, as here admin- 
istered; counting it a privilege and a favor, not a privation or a 
grievance, to be subject to that authority which He hath himself 
established in His Church. Thus you solemnly covenant and 
promise. 

On account of these your professions and engagements we the 
members of the Church 

[Here the Members of the Church will rise.] 

do now affectionately receive you to our communion. In the name 
of Christ, we declare you entitled to all the visible privileges of His 
house, as enjoyed by us. We welcome you, as brethren in Christ, 
to this fellowship with us in the labors and the blessings, the trials 
and rewards, of the Gospel of our risen Redeemer ; and on our part 
engage, in his strength, to watch over you, to seek your edification, 
and to aid your progress through this wilderness to the land of 
Eternal Rest. Amen. 



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OFFICERS. 

Mrs. L. L. Lewis, President. 

Mrs. John L. Alberger, Vice-President. 

Miss Jennie Buell, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Collections for 1876, $330.00. Annual Meeting last Tuesday in December. 

Hastes' JForn'su jWfaaOmatfi Soctttfi, 

Mrs. Samuel D. Sikes, President. 

Mrs. George C. Stearns, First Vice-Resident. 

Mrs. W. G. Bancroft, Second Vice-President. 

Miss Mary A. Ripley, Secretary. 

Miss LucyF. Lander, Recording Secretary. 

Miss Hattie M. Buell, Treasurer. 

Collections, 1876, $200.48. 

<®uv <&l)uvt§ <£tmlr&2 School. 

Charles G. Brundige, Superintendent. 

Howard Winship, Assistant Superintendent. 

John Otto, Treasurer. 

Joshua W. Parker Secretary. 

Wm. F. Sikes, Assistant Secretary. 

J. Albert Bixby, Librarian. 

Grosvenor R. Trowbridge, Assistant Librarian. 

James W. Bixby, Chorister. 

Jennie Olver, Pianist. 

TEACHERS OF BIBLE CLASSES. 

Rev. Henry M. Parsons, Teacher Congregational Bible Class. 

Levi S. Gates, Teacher Young People's Bible Class. 



Mrs. Dr. Trowbridge, Teacher Primary Department 

Byron H. Wescott, Secretary and Librarian, Primary DepH. 

Number of classes in intermediate department, 23. Whole number on the record 
intermediate department, 158. Young People's Bible Class, 50. Congregational 
Bible Class, 60. Primary Department, 90. Average attendance, 229. 

Collection intermediate department, $232.17 

Collection in Young Peoples' Bible Class, 151. 61 

REPORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S BIBLE CLASS. 

In tracing the record of this class, the most noticeable feature has been its organ- 
ization. 

At one time the Bible Class Department was composed of several smaller classes, 
but as changes have occurred from time to time, these classes have united with one 
another. This union of several distinct elements has given rise to one more power- 
ful in numbers, and better fitted to do effective work. 



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In the spring of 1869, Mrs. Marvin, who at that time taught a class of young 
ladies in our school, left the city for a home in the South. She met with her class" 
for the last time, May 2, 1869. 

The vacancy made by Mrs. Marvin's withdrawal, was filled by Mr. (now Rev.) 
Anson G. Chester. 

During the same year Mr. Edward Bristol had charge of a class of young gen- 
tlemen. a 

Near the close of 1869, Mr. Chester having entered the ministry, was obliged to 
give up his class, and as no one was found to take his place, a union was formed 
between his and Mr. Bristol's class. This took place December 19th. 

Thus organized, the class continued its workings until the close of 1871, when Mr. 
Bristol, carrying out a long-cherished intention, commenced his work as an evan- 
gelist. 

At this time, Mr. W. W. Rowley, teacher of the "Carmichael Bible Class," 
kindly offered to take charge of Mr. Bristol's class, uniting with it his own, and 
thus organized it assumed the name of "Union Bible Class," and commenced the 
year of 1872. 

In the month of April, 1875, Mr. Rowley tendered his resignation, and Mr. Levi 
S. Gates accepted the call of the class to become its teacher. His first Sabbath with 
the class was May 16th. 

The membership of the class, as far as is known, for the time this report is given, 
and including that of the year 1876, has been two hundred and fifty-six. The 
average attendance for each of these years, seventy-eight. 

Each year a President, Secretary and Treasurer have been elected, but until the 
year 1876, no record of their names has been kept. For that year the officers were: 

Edmund J. Plumley, President 

Robert T. Bixby, Secretary. 

Frederick Howard, Treasurer. 

Jennie H. Turner, AssH Secretary and Treasurer. 

Frank R. Arthur, ) 



Robert S. Hambleton, 



.Librarians. 



The contributions of the class are voluntary offerings, and expended for mission- 
ary or other benevolent purposes, as the members of the class decide. As no record 
has been kept of the amount of money given each year, only that contributed in 
1876 can be reported. The offerings for that year were one hundred and twenty- 
eight dollars and fifty cents. 

Two mission schools have been founded by this class. The "Rowley School," in 
Michigan, and the "Lander School," in Tennessee. The "Rowley School" has 
proved to be the foundation of a Church. 

At a meeting of the class, held January 5, 1876, it was formally decided to change 
its name from that of " Union Bible Class" to "Young People's Bible Class." 

OFFICERS FOR 1876. 

Levi S. Gates Teacher. 

Howard Winship, President. 

W. D. Manly, Treasurer. 

Frederick Howard, Secretary. 

Rachel Turner, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer. 

James McIntyre, ) Librarians. 



Angus Turner, 
The foregoing report was furnished by Miss Jennie Turner. 



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jiftflnor street Safcfcatfj <Scj)ooL 

1876-7. 

John Go wans, Superintendent. 

W. W. Brown, Assistant Superintendent. 

James Lynd, Secretary. 

Worthington C. Miner, Assistant Secretary. 

John Lapey, Chorister. 

Miss Lydia Hess, Organist. 

John Lapey, Teacher Primary Department. 

W. W. Brown, 
Edwin G. Sawn, 



Bible Class Teachers. 

Miss Ella Brown, 
Francis A. Board, J 

Intermediate Department, lady teachers, 15. Gentlemen teachers, 11. Average 
attendance for 1876, 404. Whole number on record, 626. 
Collections for 1876, $427.06. 

<£ortron of ^Temperance* 

Organized Janury, 1872. Meets the last Friday of each month. 

OFFICERS FOR 1877. 

Byron H. Wescott, Chief. 

J ames Lynd, First Assistant Chief. 

Miss Lucy F. Lander, Second Assistant Chief. 

Miss Nannie S. Heacock, Treasurer. 

Joshua "W. Parker, Secretary. 

ADVISORY BOARD. 
John Otto, William Turner, Howard Winship. 
Collections, 1876, $88.02. Whole number on Register, 291. Active membership, 
220. Addition for 1876, 31. Annual meeting last Friday in December. 

¥ouuq JHen's atesocfatton* 

Meets the second Tuesday of each month. 

OFFICERS, DECEMBER, 1877, TO DECEMBER, 1878. 

Howard Winship, President 

Lewis H. Brown, Vice-President. 

Charles T. Crittenden, Secretary. 

Augustus M. Westfall, Treasurer. 

Collections, $60.50. Whole number on the roll, 150. Active list, 63. 
Annual meeting for the election of officers, second Tuesday in December. 

(©qjfjau ^sglum* 

Collections for 1877: Thanksgiving coUection, $125.00. Private contributions 
since December, 1876, $339.00. 



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INSTALLATION OF REV. HENRY MARTYN PARSONS 

as Pastor of Lafayette Street Church occurred on the evening of November, 1, 1877. 
The following were the exercises : 

ORGAN VOLUNTARY, Quartette Choir. 

PRAYER OF INVOCATION, Rev. Charles Wood. 

READING OF THE SCRIPTURES, Rev. L. Van Bokkelin, D. D. 

HYMN 109— PLYMOUTH COLLECTION, ..Congregation. 

SERMON, Rev. Wolcott Calkins. D. D. 

CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS AND 



.Rev. A. T. Chester, D. D. 

PRAYER OF INSTALLATION, 
HYMN 939— PLYMOUTH COLLECTION, ..Congregation. 

CHARGE TO THE PASTOR, Rev. Isaac Riley. 

CHARGE TO THE PEOPLE, Rev. D. R. Frazer. 

PRAYER, Rev. William Reed. 

HYMN 699— PLYMOUTH COLLECTION, . .Congregation. 
BENEDICTION, By the Pastor. 

The following persons having been duly elected to serve as Elders in this Church 
were ordained after the sermon Sunday morning, May 4, 1877 : 

Charles G. Brundige, Edwin G. Sawn, Lewis H. Brown, Thomas Struthers and 
W. M. Knight, and they, together with John Otto, George L. Squier, Samuel 
N. Lawrence, Charles H. Baker (who having been re-elected), were installed into 
the office of Ruling Elders of Lafayette Street Church, for the term of three, four 
and five years, from the second Wednesday of January, 1878, as follows : 

C. H. Baker, C. G. Brundige, Lewis H. Brown, for three years ; J ohn Otto, S. N. 
Lawrence and W. M. Knight, for four years; George L. Squier, Edwin G. Sawn 
and Thomas Struthers for five years. 



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The following is intended to be a list of the names of such as are in actual attend- 
ance upon our Church services. In another place will be found, in what is called 
the retired list, the names of all those who do not meet with us, whether absent from 
the city or not. 

The list also embraces the names of all members of the congregation who have 
sittings, and is not intended to give the names of the younger members of families, 
nor of children of persons who are Church members, if such children do not actually 
belong to the Church as covenant members. 



PRESENT MEMBERSHIP. 



ACTIVE LIST. 



Adams, William H. Prof. ) 4?5 Mari - npr <, trppt 

Adams, Mrs. Annie W. Prof. \ 40 Manner street - 

Adams, Charles W. Prof : . . .45 Mariner street. 

Alberger, Mrs. Louisa F. Let 1342 Main street. 

Alberger, Miss Louisa C. Let 1342 Main street. 

Alberger, John L. Prof } 1181 Delaware street. 

Alberger, Mrs. Mary R. Prof, j 

Anderson, William Cong ) 33 ^ orth Pearl t t 

Anderson, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Cong, j 

Arthur, Alexander Cong. . ) 1285 Main street. 

Arthur, Mrs. Jane Wallace. Cong. \ 

Arthur, William Henry. Prof 1285 Main street. 

Arthur, Miss Jenny Anna. Prof 1285 Main street. 

Ault, James R. Let. ) 105 Elm street. 

Ault, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. j 

Ault, Robert A. G-. Prof 105 Elm street. 

Baker, Charles H Prof. ) 27 Mariner street. 

Baker, Mrs. Jennie L. Prof, J 

Baker, Andrew M. Prof 328 Ellicott street. 

Baker, Mrs. Amelia Mary. Prof, as Miss Amelia Dinwoodie 01 Seventh st. 

Balcom. Miss Tillie A. Prof 1540 Main street. 

Bancroft, W G Cong I 61 South Division street. 

Bancroft, Mrs. Ruth W. Let. j 

Bancroft, James K. Cong. ) 90 Magara street 

Bancroft, Mrs. Fannie. Cong, j to 

Bancroft, Miss Carrie E. Prof 90 Niagara street. 

Barker, Miss Sara A. Let 98 Morgan street. 

Barker, Miss Ella D. Prof 98 Morgan street. 

Barker, Miss Ida M. Prof 98 Morgan street. 

Barrows, Dr. Wm. A. Cong. i 009 Pearl street 

Barrows, Mrs. Mary E. Prof. (Miss Ellsworth.) f ireari screec. 

Bell, Gavin. Cong. I 138 Exchange street. 

Bell, Mrs. G-. Cong, j b 

Benedict, Charles E. Cong. ) 175 E i eve nth street. 

Benedict, Mrs. Cong. ) 

Benedict, Miss Sarah F. Prof 175 Eleventh street. 

Best, Leonard H. Cong. I 45 -park place 

Best, Mrs. Mary. Prof. (Miss Mary Whitcomb.) j 1 

Bixby, James W. Let ) 230 Whitney place. 

Bixby, Mrs. Frances B. Let. \ m J * 

Bixby, James Albert. Prof 230 Whitney place. 

Bixby, Robert T. Let 230 Whitney place. 

Bixby, Ambrose S. Prof 230 Whitney place. 

Blakely, Miss Matilda E. Prof 308 Maryland street. 

Blakely, Miss Sarah. Cong 308 Maryland street. 

Board, Francis A. Let 50 East Swan street. 

Boorman, Edward. Let. [ 18 South Division street. 

Boorman, Mrs. Mary Spencer. Let. ) 

Boutelle, Lucius. Let. ( 51 East Eagle street. 

Boutelle, Mrs. E. Adelaide. Let. j 

Brickley, Andrew H. Prof 28 Seventh street. 



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Brown, Albert G. Prof. ) 47 Worris Dla0(1 

Brown, Mrs. Carrie. Cong. \ 47 JN on is place. 

Brown, Mrs. Nathaniel. Let 272 Franklin street. 

Brown, Mrs. Phcebe P. Prof 699 Ellicott street. 

Brown, Mrs. Eliza Sarah. Let 155 West Mohawk street. 

Brown, Miss Sarah E. Prof 155 West Mohawk street. 

Brown, Willard W. Let. ) q4 To w mi p ar k 

Brown, Mrs. S. Emma B. Let. \ y4 Jonnson rark - 
Brown, Lewis H. Let. ) 10n m -, ov 

Brown; Mrs. Ellen. Let. f 100 Whitney place. 

Brown, Miss Ellen. Let 50 East Swan street. 

Brown, Charles E. Prof. i 

Brown; Mrs. Eliza J. Prof. \ 6.0 Elm street. 

Brooker, Mrs. Margaret. Prof 25 Milnor street. 

Bruce, Harlow. Cong. j 146 Wilkeson street 

Bruce, Mrs. Mabel M. Let. \ 140 VVllJceson stieet - 

Bruce, Miss Emma H. Prof 146 Wilkeson street. 

Bruce, Geo. W. Prof. ) m Wilkeson street 

Bruce, Mrs. Anna E. Cong. \ 140 Wlllieson street - 
Brundige, Charles G. Let. | nn^ Main c w 

Brundige, Mrs. Charlotte M. Let. \ iiU< Main street. 

Brundige, Miss Minnie I. Prof 1107 Main street. 

Brush, Mrs. Sarah E. Let 61 South Division street. 

Brush, Dr. Edward N. Prof 65 Ellicott street. 

K Si^V'S. \ « ""wood avenue. 

S| Ml.s T i™ 0n tet. f 229 South Division street. 

Brush, Miss Clara A. Prof 229 South Division street. 

BUCKLAND, GEO. W. Prof. I 2qq ^ Division strPPt 

Buckland, Mrs. F. Mary P. Let. \ JNoitn uivision stieet. 
Buell, Frederick. Cong. ) 27 „ P( ™ rl „ fr „„ f 

Buell, Mrs. Eliza M. Let. f 2 < 2 Hearl sti eet. 

B ctell, Miss Je annie E. Prof 272 Pearl street. 

Buell, Miss Harriet M. Prof 272 Pearl street. 

Buell, Miss Lizzie M. Prof 272 Pearl street. 

Burrows, Mrs. Maria F. (Wife of Judge B.) Let 461 Franklin street. 

Butler, John. (Colored.) Let 165 Elm street. 

Butts, Stephen B. Cong 118 Morgan street. 

Callahan, John, Jr. Cong 223 Swan street. 

Calhoun, Miss Sarah A. Let 86 Delaware street. 

Carpenter, Mrs. Jennie. (Wife of John.) Prof 87 Prospect avenue. 

Cass, Mrs. Elizabeth. (Miss Holden.) Prof 98 Bird avenue. 

Chalmers, Miss Julia A. Let .60 Niagara street. 

Chapin, Mrs. Emily R. (Miss Crittenden.) Prof 236 South Division street. 

Chichester, James L. Let. ) , QQ cs n „*.x, rw™-*,;™. 

Chichester, Mrs. Lanah. Let. f 188 South DlvlS1011 street. 

Chichester, Miss Mary E. Prof 188 South Division street. 

Childs, Henry. Let. ) t^i„_„™ ^ 

Childs; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Let. [ 141 Delaware street; 

Childs, Miss Catharine W. Prof 141 Delaware street. 

Childs, Miss Elizabeth H. Prof 141 Delaware street. 

Christian, Mr. Cong. [ ™ . Rtr __ t 

Christian, Mrs. Sally. Prof. J Hue btreet Depot. 
Clark, William. H. Cong. ) 14q n , ntOTl qtrppt 

Clark, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Prof, f ' 149 Umton otreet - 

Clark, Martin. Prof 149 Clinton street. 

Clark, Miss Arietta H. Prof 149 Clinton street. 

Cobb, Frank. Cong. / ~, a , . 

Cobb; Mrs. Charlotte. Prof. f 2*1 Seneca street. 

Cobb, William Y. Prof 301 Connecticut street. 

Cochran, Judith P. Let 1285 Main street. 

COMSTOCK, ELISHA. Let. I iq4?rn«n P ^ fl YPnii P 

Comstock, Mrs. Harriet A. Let. f 1J4 ^ ros P ect avenue. 

Comstock, Miss May C. Prof 194 Prospect avenue. 

Connaughty, Miss Sarah. Cong 374 Niagara street. 

Conway, Miss Nellie Fredrica. Prof 499 Oak street. 

Cook, Mrs. Maria Arthur. Let 1285 Main street. 



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Crandall, Mrs. Lodema. Prof 198 Prospect avenue 

Crandall, De Forest. Prof. | 

Crandall, Mrs. Laura C. Let. (Mrs. Lathrop.) | lo1 Court street. 

Crittenden, Mrs. Delia R. Let 69 Mariner sireet 

Crittenden, Charles T. Prof. j . 

Crittenden, Mrs. Hattie A. Prof. (Miss Murray.) | 69 Mariner street. 

Crittenden, Miss Delia A. Prof 482 Main street. 

Curtiss, Seir. Cong. I 

Curtiss, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Let. j East Ea S le stree t- 

Davidson, Samuel. Let. ) 

Davidson, Mrs. Jessie. Let. (Mrs. Dawson.) | ^ Clinton street. 
Davis, James L. G. Cong. | 

Davis, Mrs. Emily S. Cong, f 96 East Swan street. 

Davis, Mrs. Dolly. Let 96 East Swan street. 

Deane, Elisha C. Cong. ) . e _ . 

Deane, Mrs. Sarah P. Prof, j" 4o Park street - 

Dellenbaugh, Dr. Samuel. Cong. ) „ . 

Dellenbaugh, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof, j" 1 • - ~ 4 ° Mllcott street. 

Dewey, Mrs. Harriet W Let 75 East Eagle street. 

Dick, Mrs. Ellen. Let. (Mrs. James M.) 331 South Division street. 

Dick, Miss Ellen. Prof 331 South Division street. 

Dick, Miss Agnes. Prof 331 South Division street. 

Dorman, G-. W. Cong. > OAA ^ , 

Dorman, Mrs. Catharine. Let, f 209 East Swan street. 

Dougherty, Geo. E. Cong. ' ) Q ~ -p , 

Dougherty, Mrs. Margaret E. Prof. \ bl Aspect avenue. 
Dover, George. Cong. \ c*^iJL*a ) n 

Dover; Mrs. Josephine. Cong.] Colored - \ 9 Mihior street. 

Dowd, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let 259 East Swan street. 

Dowd, Miss Ida E. Prof 259 East Swan street. 

Dudley, Joseph P. Cong. ) _ , , 

Dudley, Mrs. Mary F. Let. ) 837 Delaware street. 

Dunbar, George W. Prof 19 West Tupper street. 

Eels, Miss Mary F. Prof 307 Elm street. 

Egberts, Mrs. Henrietta. Let 62 Cherry street. 

Egberts, Mrs. H. W. Let. (Miss Venerman.) 114 North street. 

Egberts, Miss Wilhelmina. Let. (Mrs. Grant.) 154 William street. 

Egbert, Miss Carrie. Prof. (Mrs. Worm ald.) 137 North street. 

Egberts, Miss Hannah H. Prof. (Mrs. Wilkie.) 517 Elm street. 

Ellsworth, Alfred B. Let. ( 91 M . 

Ellsworth, Mrs. Sarah A. Let. \ 34 Mariner street. 

Ellsworth, John F. Prof 34 Marmer street. 

Ely, E. Sterling. Let. j ~, , , 

Ely, Mrs. Theresa N. Let. \ Cheektowaga. 

Fales, Geo. P. Let. } M ll(jr , , 

Fales! Mrs. Emma L. Let. \ 44 Mor 8 an street - 
Fay, Edward. Let. / f00 -\r- i • , *. 

Fay, Mrs. Sarah M. Let. ) 4o2 Michigan street. 
Fields, Samuel H. Let. ( K{ , A . , 

Fields, Mrs. Mary J. Let. } 564 Elhcott street. 

Wield, Miss Mary A. (Colored.) Cong 172 Elm street. 

Field, Miss Martha. (Colored.) Cong 172 Elm street. 

Fielder, Francis. Cong. j Q n~ ^ 

Fielder, Mrs. Ruth. Cong, f 80 ' Elmstieet - 

Fleming, T. W. Cong 17 West Chippewa street. 

Fleming, Miss Mary A. Cong 17 West Chippewa street. 

Flvnn, Geo. W. Prof. I 4 o n Miphio . flT1 „ trpp< - 

Flynn, Mrs. Mary E. (McNish.) Prof. \ 4oU Jllcm g an stieet - 

Frazer, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Prof 198 West Mohawk street. 

Frazer, Miss Amelia G. Prof. . . .* 198 West Mohawk street. 

Fr^er, Miss Mary Jane. Prof 198 West Mohawk street. 

Freeman, Mrs. Helen J. Let 112 Niagara street. 

French, Thomas B. Prof. { 74 F , F , . . 

French, Mrs. Julia A. Prof. \ < 4 Last r.aye stieet. 



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French, Mrs. Mary B. Prof. (Balcom.) 1540 Main street. 

French, Henry C. Prof. ) 83 West Huron street 

French, Mrs. Eva J. Cong, f 

Fullmer, Miss Jennie P. Prof 8 Chippewa street. 

Gates, Levi S. Let . 166 Seventh street 

Gibson, Miss Isabella. Prof 25 Tenth street. 

Gilbert, Mrs. Julia H. (Miss Catlin.) Prof. 450 Seneca street. 

Gilpin, Miss Sally S. Let 72 North Division street. 

GO™,' mTeSS F. Prof. [ 833 North »~ street ' 
Go wans, Miss Mary Adelaide. Prof 222 North Division street. 

g=:S rs VI S AE C Y T Let. } 07 Chippewa street. 
iSSS MTsHsif Let. 1 76 East Swan street. 
Gurney, William H. Cong. I 47 o Ppflrl ^ f 

Gurney, Mrs. W. H. Cong. \ 4 ' rf rearl streefc " 
Guiteau, Mrs. Sarah B. Let 606 Main street. 

Haig, Mrs. Jeannette. Prof 37 Eleventh street. 

S AIN 5 S ' 9?°^ *L £ on & I 978 Delaware street. 



Haines, Mrs. Helen M. Cong 
Hale, Henry H. Let. 
Hale, Mrs. Roxana Arthur. .Let 



, 1285 Main street. 



Hall, Mrs. Harriet. Let Cold Springs. 

Hamilton, Charles J. Prof. ) 1fi4 w . Hnrnn sfciwt 

Hamilton, Mrs. Margaret G. Let. f it* w est Huron street. 

Hamilton, Miss Ida A. Prof 164 West Huron street. 

Hammond, Thomas C. Prof 54 Seneca street. 

Hancock, Lucius. Cong. ) OCQ ~+ ^ 

Hancock; Mrs. Mary B Prof. \ 283 Prospect avenue. 

Hancock, Miss Mary E. Prof 283 Prospect avenue. 

Hancock, Miss Carlie W. Prof 283 Prospect avenue. 

H^"coS^L Cong: \ 107 Foorteenth street. 

C CoIg. 1 ™ Chippewa street. 
Hastings, Wm. B. Prof. ) tw„u~,~. ^. ± 

Hastings, Mrs. Sarah B. Prof. \ 1 <6 Dearborn street. 

Harwood, Miss Clara. Prof 432 Michigan street. 

Hawks, B. B. Cong. ) ., K « u,, , , 

Hawks, Mrs. Sara! E. Let. f 157 Elev enth street. 

Hawks, Miss Harriet L. Let 157 Eleventh street. 

Hawks, Miss Fannie K. Cong 157 Eleventh street. 

Hawks, Miss Emma E. Prof 157 Eleventh street. 

Hawks, Miss Mary Ella. Prof 157 Eleventh street. 

Hayes, Charles E. Let 50 East Swan street. 

Hayes, Edmund. Let 660 Main street. 

Hazard, Calvin P. Let. ( A „ n -d , , , 

Hazard; Mrs. Louisa F. Let. \ 479 Pearl street - 

Hazard, Miss Carrie L. Prof 479 Pearl street. 

He acock, Mrs. Nancy R. Let 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Jesse Stone. Prof 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Seth G. Prof. (Hamilton College.) 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Miss Nannie S. Prof 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Miss Lizzie G. Prof 988 Main street. 

Heacock, Reuben B. Prof 191 Franklin street. 

Heacock, Miss Eliza C. Let 191 Franklin street. 

Heacock, Miss Abby G. Prof 191 Franklin street. 

Henderson, James M. Prof. ) n „ a , ™ ■, ' , . . 

Henderson, Mrs. Lizzie Lewis. Let. \ * 2 ' b East Ea ^ le street - 

Hendricks, Mrs. Margaret. Prof 247 Sixth street. 

Hendricks, Miss Anna. Prof 247 Sixth street. 

Hofheins, Geo. H. Cong. j Cd9 m , , 

Hofheins, Mrs. Harriet. (Miller.) Prof. \ Mm street. 



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Horton, Cornelius M. Let. ) ^ 

Horton, Mrs. Caroline D. Let. f 399 Franklin street. 

Horton, Miss Helen M. Prof 399 Franklin street. 

Horton, Miss Albertina M. Prof 399 Franklin street. 

Horton, Miss Margaretta. Prof 399 Franklin street 

Howard Miss Amelia. (Colored.) Prof 165 Elm street 

Howell, John. Cong. ) HM _. . 

Howell, Mrs. John. Cong. \ 191 South Division street. 

Howell, Edgar W. Prof 191 South Division street. 

Howard, Frederick. Prof 476 Franklin street. 

Hubbell, Henry S. Cong. ) 

Hubbell, Mrs. Henry S. Let. [ 172 Franklin street. 

Humason, Gamaliel. Let. ) 1Q _ . . 

Humason, Mrs. Eliza A. Let. \ 180 South Division street. 

Hungerford, Mrs. Hannah. Prof 11 Whitney place. 

Husted, Edwin S. Cong. ) oco r 

Husted, Mrs. Edith. Prof. j Jersey- street. 



Jameson, Stephen F. Prof .223 Swan street. 

Jeffrey, Mrs. Clarissa. Prof 55 Whitney place. 

Johnson, Miss Anna M. Let 237 Ellicott street. 

Johnson, Dr. Thomas M. Let 10 South Division street. 

Johnson, Ralph. Cong. 1 1 . . „ , „ . 
Johnson, Mrs. Helen R. Prof. \ 144 East Ea S le street - 
Johnson, Jasper. (Colored.) Prof 290 Genesee street. 

Kenyon, Mrs. Mary S. Let 49 West Huron street. 

Kenyon, Miss Carrie S. Let 49 West Huron street. 

Kenyon, Miss Ada M. Let 49 West Huron street. 

Keys, Mrs. Lannie Darrow. Cong 162 Ellicott street. 

Knight, W. M. Prof 306 Main street corner of Erie. 



Ladd, James S. Prof 170 Niagara street. 

Lampman, Henry P. Cong, j nQ . , . , 

Lampman,' Mrs. L. C. Prof, f 98 East Eagle street. 

Lander, Miss Lucy F. Let 145 South Division street. 

Lapey, John. Prof. ) ao m,- ^ + j. 

Lapey, Mrs. Artemisia W. Let. } • 62 Cbnton street - 

Lapey, Miss Louisa M. Prof 62 Clinton street. 

Earned, Josephus N. Cong. ) 0ftQ t\,t„wi„„j ~+ +. 

Larned,' Mrs. Frances A. K. Let. \ 263 Mar y lan d street 

Larned, Henry S. Prof. j oaA n „ 

Larned, Mrs. Emma Frances. Prof. \ 264 Connecticut street. 
Lawrence, Samuel N. Let. ) u TCWpnth strPPt 

Lawrence, Mrs. Harriet L. Let. \ 44 i^ieventn street. 

Lawrence, Miss Hattie L. Prof 44 Eleventh street. 

Lee, Miss Mary E. Let 182 Clinton street. 

Lewis, Loran L. Cong ) 309 Franklin street 

Lewis, Mrs. Charlotte P. Prof. [ 

Lewis, George L. Prof Yale College. 

Lewis, Miss Lulu M. Prof 309 Franklin street. 

Lewis, Miss Lizzie A. Prof 309 Franklin street. 

Lewis, Master Loran L., Jr. Prof 309 Franklin street. 

Linen, John R. Let. ) 33 W. Tupper street 

Linen, Mrs. Mary F. Cong. \ FF 

Little, Mrs. Rachel. Let 107 East Eagle street. 

Little, Miss Ida. Prof 107 East Eagle street. 

Locke, Philander B. Prof. ) 201 East Swan street. 

Locke, Mrs. Mary E. B. Prof. ) 

-Lockhart, Duncan. Cong 62 Clinton street. 

Long, Edwin N. Prof 18 Union street. 

Lowe, Mrs. Cornelia. Let 384 Main street. 

Lowe, Miss Ella C. Prof ' 384 Main street. 

Lynd, Adam Prof ) 263 East Eagle street 

Lynd, Mrs. Agnes N. Prof, j & 

Lynd, James. Prof 263 East Eagle street. 

Lynd, Miss Martha. Prof 263 East Eagle street. 



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ffi MlJ-M.' /■'*<•.,„„ | *» E ^ Eagle street. 

Mabie, Miss Emma. Prof. (Mrs. R. W. Graves) 109 East Eagle street. 

Mabie, Miss Ida B. Prof 109 East Eagle street. 

Mabie, Miss Hattie E. Prof 109 East Eagle street. 

Maglauchlin, John J . Prof. ( oko n n . n u„„ ,4,^ 

Maglauchlin; Mrs. Adeline's. Let. f 2o2 ^olma street. 

Manly, W. D. Cong 49 West Huron street. 

Mason, Seth L. Let. i 9 1Q E + F , . , 

Mason, Mrs. Ann. Let \ • • • ' " " Last ^ agle street ' 

Mason, Miss Mary. Prof 212 East Eagle street. 

Mason, Frank B. Prof 231 East Eagle street. 

McDougall, H. Cong 400 Main street. 

McEachren, Neil. Cong 97 Ellicott street. 

McFetridge, Miss Jennie. Let 473 Virginia street. 

McIntyre, James. Prof 465 Oak street. 

McIntyre, Miss Jessie. Prof 465 Oak street. 

McIntyre, Miss Jane. Prof 465 Oak street. 

McIntyre, Miss Agnes. Prof 465 Oak street. 

McNish, William. Let 430 Michigan street. 

McNish, Miss Matilda. Prof 430 Michigan street. 

McNish, David B. Let. i , S9 E t E , . . 

McNish, Mrs. Lucy L. Cong. ) ^ ast ^ agle street> 

McNiven, Miss Katie. Prof 248 North Division street. 

McNiven, William R. Cong 248 North Division street. 

Mc Williams, John J. Let. / 100 o»™-h. 

Mc Williams, Mrs. Esther K. Let. \ 122 Seventh street 

Mead, A. G. Cong 927 Washington street. 

Meldrum, Alexander. Prof. ( 1 1 68 Delaware street 

Meldrum, Mrs. A. E. Prof. \ llby Uela.-wa.re street. 

Melling, Mrs. Phcebe. Let 277 Prospect avenue. 

Merritt, J. M. Cong. j „ n2 ^ ^ • ■ t t 

Merritt, Mrs. Helen M. Prof, j ^oith Division street. 

Merritt, Miss Cora J. Prof 302 North Division street. 

Meredith, Mrs. Lizzie. Let. (Barnes) 861 Wahsington street. 

Middlebrook, Mrs. Maria. Let 85 Pine street. 

Middlebrook, Miss Eliz a L. Prof 85 Pine street. 

Miller, Mrs. Louise. Cong. (Mrs. C. W.) 225 Pearl street. 

Miller, Miss Carrie E. (Daughter of Richard.) Cong 454 Michigan street. 

Mills, Robert. Prof. l 182 Niao . ara strept 

Mills, Mrs. Margaret A. Prof. \ ^ ia g ara street - 

Mills, Miss Lillie J. Prof 182 Niagara street. 

Mills, James H. Cong. ) „ fi7 p , avpilllp 

Mills, Mrs. A. Maria. Cong, f ' b7 " ospect avenue - 

Mills, Edward P. Cong 767 Prospect avenue. 

Miner, Dr. Julius F. Let. ) nwQ ir „. , . 

Miner, Mrs. Mary C. Let. \ 9 ' 8 Mam street ' 

Miner, Miss Mary Estella. Prof 978 Main street. 

Miner, Worthington C. Prof 978 Main street. 

Moore, Chester. Cong. ) lon^o™,^^^ 
Moore' Mrs. C. D. Cong. \ —~ ISO Eas. Swan street. 

Moore, Miss Etta C. Prof 180 East Swan street. 

Morgan, Louis S. Let. / , QO w „ , • . , . 

Morgan, Mrs. Mary A. Let. } ' • • • - 489 Washington street. 

Muldon, Gerald. Prof. ) an n ,-. ^ +. 

Muldon! Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof, f 69 Chnton street 

Munce, James. Let 49 Sixth street. 

Murdock, Mrs. Charlotte. Prof 102 South Division street, 

Neill, James. Let 

Neller, JohnF. Cong. / 791 Genesee street 

Neller, Mrs. Ellen. (Miss Templeton.) Let. j ' yi ^ enesee street. 

Newbury, Miss Eva. Prof 399 Spring street. 

Newbury, Miss Bertha. Prof 299 Spring street. 

Nichols, Oren G. Prof. ) 01)ft 

Nichols, Mrs. Ida V. M. Cong. \ 2o ° AUen stieet 

Nilfs, Mrs. C. L. Let 177 Clinton street. 

North, Miss Laura B. Let at E. S. Ely 's, Cheektowaga. 



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Olver, Wm. Brent. Prof. ) 

Olver, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. 5 25 Tenth street. 

Olver, Miss Jennie S. Prof 25 Tenth street 

Otto, John. Let. j 

Otto, Mrs. Eliza S. Prof. \ 198 Georgia street. 

Otto, Miss Eliza Corning. Prof 198 Georgia street 

Otto, John, Jr. Prof (Hamilton College.) 198 Georgia street.' 

Ovens, Robert. Cong. ) 

Ovens, Mrs. Jeannette. Let.]" 161 Morgan street. 

Palmer, Miss Nellie C. Prof 50 East Swan street. 

Parker, Mrs. Helen A. Let 148 Hudson street. 

Parker, Miss Eliza L. Prof 148 Hudson street. 

Parker, J oshua W. Prof 148 Hudson street. 

Parr, George. Cong. | . ., 

Parr, Sarah M. Cong. [ 144 Seventh street. 

Parsons, Rev. Henry M. Pastor ) 

Parsons, Mrs. Sarah J. Let. j" 151 Chippewa street. 

Parsons, Miss Ella D. Let 151 Chippewa street. 

Parsons, Miss Jessie. Let 151 Chippewa street. 

Parsons, Miss Emma. Let 151 Chippewa street. 

Pease, Mrs. F. S. Cong corner Niagara* and Hudson. 

Philpott, C. H. Cong. ) KtlA „„. , , , , 

Philpott, Mrs. Hattie W. Prof. (Miss Fields.) f 5b4 ^ m cott street. 

Pierce, Henry J. Prof 291 Niagara street. 

Pindar, Miss Mary E. Prof 18 Twelfth street. 

Plumley, Edmund J. Let. f ino ^ 

Plumley, Mrs. Flora E. C. Prof. \ 198 Prospect avenue. 

Pomeroy, Perry. Let 65 Chippewa street. 

Preston, John R., Jr. Prof «. 278 Seneca street. 

Randall, Mrs. Sophronia. Let 489 Washington street. 

Rankin, Henry. Cong, j OA „ , , 

Rankin, Mrs. Jane. Let. ) 206 bwan street - 

Rankin, Miss Lizzie E. Prof 206 Swan street. 

Rankin, Miss Mary I. Prof 206 Swan street. 

Raymond, C. J. Cong 260 Main street. 

Rea, Miss Elizabeth S. Prof 432 East Eagle street. 

Riasch, Thomas. Cong 17 West Chippewa street. 

Richardson, E. K. Let. f or . e , , , 

Richardson; Mrs. Loretta H. Let. \ 306 East Swan street 

Richardson, Miss Frank A. Prof , 306 East Swan street. 

Ripley, Miss Mary Ann. Prof 254 Franklin street. 

Rising, John P. Cong 61 South Division street. 

Roese, Miss Minnie D. Prof 80 Sycamore street. 

Roese, Henry. Prof 80 Sycamore street. 

Rosenbury, Charles E. Let. j -n^i^^ ^,^+- ~ tt+- 

Rosenbury; Mrs. Charlotte S. Let. \ Delaware street, cor. Utica. 

Rosenbury, Charles Ward. Prof Delaware street, cor. Utica. 

Rosenbury, Miss Susan Caryl. Prof Delaware street, cor. Utica. 

Rowley, Alonzo. Let New York. 

Rowley, W. W. Prof. ) Npw York 

Rowley, Mrs. Alice Louisa. Prof, j new x or*. 

Rumsey, Miss Lucy Ann. Let 52 Cottage street. 

Russell, Wm. C. Cong. ) 7q Spvpn | h „ trpfi1 . 

Russell, Mrs. Margaret S. Prof. \ ' 9 Seventh street. 

Sawn, Edwin G. Prof ) 191 East E le street 

Sawn, Mrs. Emma M. Prof. [ & 

Saxton, Elijah R. Cong. I 337 gwan street< 

Saxton, Mrs. Seraphina. Let. j 

Schermerhorn, Isaac M. Cong. ) 180 Pr0 t avenue . 

Schermerhorn, Mrs. Catharine S. Prof. \ 1 

Schermerhorn, Mrs. Amia C. Let. (Mother of I. M.) 180 Prospect avenue. 

Scheffer, Frank E. Cong i 194 North Division street. 

SCHEFFER, Mrs. CHRISTINA H. Prof, j 

Schleiter, Charles. Prof I 200 Swau street> 

SCHLEITER, Mrs. CHARLES. Cong, j 



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Sears. Mrs. Margaret A. Let 132 West Chippewa street. 

Sears, Miss Susan. (Mrs. Sizer.) Prof 132 West Chippewa street. 

Sears, Miss Emma M. Cong 132 West Chippewa street. 

Sears, Miss Frances G. Cong 132 West Chippewa street. 

Seaman, Master Elmer E. Prof 124 Mariner street. 

Selleck, Franklin. Let 50 East Swan street. 

Shaw, Edwin A. Prof. ( 1Q , Q ™- ^ <. 

Shaw, Mrs. Clara C. Prof. \ lo58 Mam street ' 

Shaw, Albert W. Prof Yale College. 

Shaw, Master Edwin C. Prof i 1358 Main street. 

Shaw, Winfield S. Let. I -„ rotfae ._ t t 

Shaw, Mrs. Maria T. Let. j 5 " Cottage street. 

Shaw, Miss Isabella M. Prof 52 Cottage street. 

Shaw, Clark R. Prof 52 Cottage street. 

Shaw, Dr. Merrill H. Let 45 North Pearl. 

Shaw, Miss Nellie E. Prof 45 North Pearl. 

Sheldon, Jerome B. Cong. j n „ . -p, , _ , 

Sheldon, Mrs. Caroline. Cong. } 9 < East Ea & le street 
Shepherd, John E. Prof. ) iw a,v^ dw,** 

Shepherd, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Prof. \ io ' felxtl1 stieet - 

Sherwood, Homer C. Let. j OWA f . • , , 

Sherwood, Mrs. Helen M. Prof. \ 2,0 Geor S ia street - 

Sikes, Mrs. Susan L. Let 217 Linwood avenue. 

Sikes, Miss Florence A. Prof 217 Linwood avenue. 

Sikes, Frederick G. Prof 217 Linwood avenue. 

Sikes, George R. Prof 217 Linwood avenue. 

Sikes, Edwin. Prof. { 2 q« map-am ^trPPt 

Sikes, Mrs. Louisa C. Prof. ) ^ Jb ^ ia ^ ara street - 

Sikes, William F. Cong 208 Niagara street. 

Sikes, Edwin P. Prof 298 Niagara street. 

Sikes, Miss Sarah C. Prof 298 Niagara street. 

Simonds, Mrs. Lucinda. Let 519 North Division street. 

Simpson, Mrs. Prudence. Cong. (Colored.) Pine street. 

Smith, Frances A. Let 191 William street. 

Smith, Miss Phcebe. Prof. 38 Eleventh street. 

Smith, George H. Cong. ) 12 o «, th ^ t 

Smith, Mrs. Helen M. Prof, f ^ 6 telxtJl street> 
Snaith, John S. Prof. ) 9t - A m-rth «w 

Snaith' Mrs. Eleanor M. Prof. \ 251 Sixth stieet. 

Snyder, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let 118 Virginia street. 

Snyder, Miss Eva. Let. ' 118 Virginia street. 

Spencer, Mrs. Agnes J. Prof 161 Morgan street. 

Squier, George L. Prof. ( 1S13 Main <tfrp«i- 

Squier, Mrs. Frances C. Let. \ ldlo Main street. 

Squier, Master Frederick C. Prof 1313 Main street. 

Start, Mrs. Sarah Ann. Prof 96 Oak street. 

Stearns, George C. Cong. ) 20 * T.inwonH hvmhip 

Stearns, Mrs. Mary R. Let. \ ^ Uo ^ mwoocl avenue. 

Stearns, George R. Prof 205 Linwood avenue. 

Stearns, Chas. P. Prof 205 Linwood avenue. 

Stearns, Master Samuel C. Prof 205 Linwood avenue. 

Stebbins, William H. Cong 652 Main street. 

Stephenson, George C. H. Prof 70 West Genesee street. 

Stockbridge, Miss Fannie E. Prof 10 South Division street. 

Strickland, Russell K. Prof. I m Spvpntll „ frppt 

Strickland, Mrs. Ellen. Prof, f 61 beventh street. 

Struthers, Thomas. Let. I 4 o-, n , t . 

Struthers, Mrs. Elizabeth. Let. f 4di uaK street> 

Struthers, Miss Jean. Prof 431 Oak street. 

Struthers, Miss Lizzie. Prof 431 Oak street. 

Taylor, Lorenz. Cong ) 76 Lewig street 

Taylor, Mrs. Sarah. Cong. [ 

Thomas, Dr. George T. Let 179 Eleventh street. 

Thompson' Mts^Elizabeth N. Let. \ 179 South Division street. 

SEES; a?s? l™ST' Let. !■ 72 North Division street. 



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True, Mrs. Harriet E. Prof 200 Clinton street. 

Tolfree, J. Herbert. Cong. } ... . ,„ . , 

Tolfree, Mrs. Hattie. (Brown.) Cong, j lo6 Glmt on street. 
Trowbridge, Dr. John S. Cong. ) imTI ,„ 

Trowbridge, Mrs. Abby E. Let. \ 101 Franklin street. 

Trowbridge, Grosvenor R. Prof 191 Franklin street. 

Turner, Adam. Let 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Annie E. Let 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, Angus C. Let 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Jennie H. Let 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, William. Prof 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Rachel. Prof 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, Miss Euphemia C. Prof 101 Whitney place. 

Turner, David J. Prof 191 Whitney place. 

Van Buren, James. Let. ) 1ft01J 1V . 

Van Buren, Mrs. Sarah Jane. Prof, f 193 Franklm street. 

Van Velsor, John. Cong. I QC1 , r . , , 

Van Velsor, Mrs. Josephine. Cong, f db-i Mam street. 

Wade, William. Prof. ) AnK . , 

Wade, Mrs. Jane. Let. \ 425 Sixth street. 

Walker, Mrs. Elizabeth. Prof. (Colored.) 1T2 Elm street. 

Walker, Miss Carrie E. Cong. (Colored.) 172 Elm street. 

Warner, Thomas 1ST. Cong. / n „, ™. , . 

Warner! Mrs. Emily. CoSg. \ 3,4 Cllnton street - 

Warring, Mrs. Ann M. Cong -> 02 Clinton street. 

Wells, David B. Cong. ) 100 w^v. ■ ' * * 

Wells! Mrs. Mary M. Cong. \ 19 ° No1 th Dl ™ion street. 

Wehser, Miss Emma. Prof. 169 College street. 

Wehser, Miss Louisa. Prof 109 College street. 

Wescott, Byron H. Prof. j 10 c<~ +1 tm^a • * *. 

Wescott! Mrs. Jennie E. Prof. (Miss Barker.) \ ' - 13 South Dl ™ion street. 

Westfall, Augustus M. Let. / Q o~ twi„„ „+. *. 

Westfall, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Prof. ) 33 ' Dela ^ ai ' e street. 
Wheeler, Royal. Let. ) j Main near Le Roy avenue. 

Wheeler, Mrs. Sarah. Let. \ ( Buffalo Plains. 
Whitcomb, Dr. Nathan W. Prof. I q 7S p^,,, . . 

Whitcomb, Mrs. Mary Louise. Prof, f °'° reai 1 street. 

Whitcomb, Miss Leo A. Prof 378 Pearl street. 

White, Mrs. Margaret. Let 02 Clinton street. 

Whitney Milo A. Cong. ) 
Whitney, Mrs. Mary H. Cong. \ 

Whittet, Mrs. Lydia E. Prof 130 Sixth street. 

Whittet, J. Lewis. Cong 130 Sixth street. 

Wight, Elijah W. Cong 978 Delaware street. 

Wilkes, Arthur B. Let 243 Mam street. 

Williams, William O. Let. [ 207 Mai _ „ frppt 

Williams, Mrs. Anna. Let. \ M1 Mam street * 

Williams, Anna. (Daughter.) Prof 207 Main street. 

Williams, Edward O. Let 213 Pearl street. 

Williams, Adin W. Prof > 92 Prospect avenue. 

Williams, Mrs. Mary C. Prof. \ * 

Wilson, Robert. Let ) 10 Blossom street. 

Wilson, Mrs. Hannah J. Let. ) 

Wilson, John W. Let. I 109 Carolina street. 

Wilson, Mrs. Mary W. Let. f 

Wilson, George S. Cong. } 374 Niagara street. 

Wilson, Mrs. Maggie A. Cong. ) & 

Winn, Armes C. Prof 11 Whitney Place. 

Winn, Mrs. Caroline E. Prof 11 Whitney Place. 

Winship, Aaron N. Cong. i 12 South Division street. 

Winship, Mrs. Sarah Ann. Let. \ 

Winship, Howard. Prof 12 South Division street. 

Wright, Miss Emma A. Let 75 South Division street. 

Yaw, Miss Katie. Prof 280 Clinton street. 



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The following list embraces all whose names appear upon the Church record and 
in the Historical Catalogue, but who at present are not on the list of active mem- 
bership from whatever cause. 



RETIRED LIST. 

Abel, Julia M Unknown. 

Abel, Miss Salina Mary 176 Sycamore street. 

Adams, Mrs. Edwin 36 Bowery street. 

Adriance, J. V. S. and wife Out On Clinton Road. 

Ansteth, Jacob 213 Clinton street. 

Ayer, Erastus W Went to Cincinnati. 



Baker, Henry E Detroit. 

Baker, Ransom R 61 Seventh street. 

Bale, John and wife Mary Went to Duluth. 

Balentine, Mrs. Margaret Unknown. 

Bancroft, George Went to Detroit. 

Banks, Mrs. Sarah B Abbott Road. 

Bannerman, Mrs Unknown. 

Bennet, James H Went to California. 

Bennet, James S Went to Chicago. 

Benson, James H Unknown. 

Bettis, Mrs. Sally 888 Prospect avenue. 

Bettis, Mrs. Marilla B 888 Prospect avenue. 

Bingham, Mrs. Martha (Sudderick) 419 Delaware street. 

Bowen, Samuel W. and wife Sarah East Aurora, N. Y. 

Braam, Mr Unknown. 

Bristol, Edward, now Rev Brockport, N Y. 

Bristol, Mrs. William 65 West Tupper. 

Brooker, Mrs. Margaret Unknown. 

Brown, Miss Priscilla J Unknown. 

Brown, Mrs. Amanda ( Unknown. 

Brown, Miss Maria Louise (Mrs. Adsit) Hornellsville, N. Y. 

Brown, Albert G 

Brown, Mrs. Salina (Myron E. ) 

Brown, Miss Susie E. (Mrs. Farnsworth) 204 North Division street. 

Brown, William S. Prof. I K ^ w „ + „+. 

Brown! Mrs. Mary E. \ 5 ' Efner street ' 

Brush, Jesse Philadelphia. 

Burt, Mrs. A. R Unknown. 

Butler, Hart and wife Unknown. 



Cambell, Edwin Pennsylvania. 

Campbell, James Unknown. 

Carter, Mrs. Eliza 699 Ellicott street. 

Catlin,'Miss Martha Derby, N. Y. 

Carew, Miss Abby C Lyons, Iowa. 

Chatman, James W. and wife Mrs. Sarah L 70 College street. 

Clark, Mrs. Seth Providence Asylum. 

Clark, Mrs. Abigail Unknown. 

Cochran, Joseph 737 Delaware street. 

Cone, Mrs. Susan Unknown. 

Cook, Miss Sarah Ann Unknown. 

Cook, Miss Abby P Niagara Falls. 

Cook, Miss Maria H Niagara Falls. 

Coppock. Mrs. Rosina Unknown. 

Copp, Mrs. Rebecca Eden, N. Y. 

Cotton, Mrs. Jane Unknown. 

Cooper, Robert C Niagara, corner Morgan. 

Curtis, Miss Cora (Mrs. Sibley) Chicago, 111. 



Davis, Maria 

Davis, Miss Julia M. 
Dickey, Benjamin . 



Unknown. 

Unknown. 

St. James Church. 



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Dow, Mrs. Wm. F West Virginia. 

Downing, Mrs. Agnes Unknown. 

Duncan, Edward A Unknown. 

Egberts, Egbert, Jr. , and wife 51 Cherry street. 

Egberts, Garrett H 371 Walnut street. 

Edwards, William R. and wife Mrs. Mary J Went to Chicago, 111. 

Eels, Mr. Charles and Mrs. Mary J West Alden, N. Y. 

Eels, Mrs. Tercius Skaneateles, N. Y. 

Enklaar, Mrs. M. H Unknown. 

Evans, Miss Charlotte A 186 Franklin street. 

Falls, Lewis F Unknown. 

Ferguson, Miss Jane Unknown. 

Fluto, Ernest Unknown. 

Foster, William Unknown. 

Frazer, Adam and wife Unknown. 

French, Mrs. Catharine E . Chicago, 111. 

Fowler, Edward H. and wife 64 Johnson place. 

Garman, Barbary Unknown. 

Gardner, Mrs. Jane Unknown. 

Geir, Mrs. Margaret M Unknown. 

Gillis, MissMayette Unknown. 

Gowans, Peter and Mrs. E W 801 Ferry street. 

Gowans, Miss Elizabeth A. (Mrs. Hopkins) 164 Franklin street. 

Gowans, Wm. W. and wife Isabella 887 Prospect avenue. 

Grant, Miss Minnie Unknown. 

Graves, George C Unknown. 

Graves, Miss Jane Niagara Falls. 

Gray, Miss Jane St. Louis. 

Graham, Mrs. Margaret Unknown. 

Greene, Miss Margaret Unknown. 

Gregg, Willard and wife Seneca street. 

Grissom, Mrs. Margaret Unknown. 

Gross, Mrs. Mary Alden, N. Y. 

Gulic, Miss Mary Ellen Unknown. 

Hall, Mrs. Harriet Cold Springs. 

Hamilton, Robert S Kentucky. 

Hammond, Mrs. Harriet S St. Thomas, Ont. 

Harvey, Miss Sarah Unknown. 

Harmon, Miss Udelia Went West. 

Harr. Miss Sarah N Eden, N. Y. 

Henderson, John J. and Mrs. Eliza Cincinnati. 

Henderson, Miss Lizzie (Mrs. McKay) Des Moines. 

Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Unknown. 

Hicks, Mrs. Mary F Unknown. 

Hickox, Henry B. and wife St. Thomas, Ont. 

Hickox, Miss Catharine and Harriet St. Thomas, Ont. 

Hill, Miss Frances Mary Unknown. 

Hill, Miss Mary K Unknown. 

Hodgeland, Miss Katurah Unknown. 

Holland, Joseph Unknown. 

Homer, Benjamin Unknown. 

Hooker, Mr. and Mrs . . Chicago, 111. 

Hornick, Mrs. Ann Eliza St. Paul, Minn. 

Howell, Mrs. Sarah Unknown. 

Howe, Mrs. Susan Unknown. 

Hoyt, Henry A. and wife Mary J Prospect avenue. 

Hubbard, Mr. A. N. and wife Abigail Unknown. 

Humphrey, Mrs. Catharine and Miss Anna Canal street. 

Hunt, Miss Fannie Unknown. 

Inman, Mrs. C 105 Oak street. 



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MANUAL OF THE 



Jacobs, Charlotte and Miss Hattie Unknown. 

Jennings, Samuel and Mrs. Ann Unknown. 

Jones, Mrs. Susan Unknown. 

Judson, Billa M 101 E. Eagle street. 

Kennedy, Miss M. J Unknown. 

Kennedy, Alexander Unknown. 

Kennedy, Miss Anna Unknown. 

Lawrence, Edward L. Let 239 Hudson street. 

Lee, Miss Caroline. Geneva, N. Y. 

Lewis, Mrs. Harriet Unknown. 

Loegler, Charles and wife Miss Louise (Allen) 201 East Swan street. 

Lovel, Miss Laura G Unknown. 

Mansel, Edward Unknown. 

Marsh, Thomas E Unknown. 

Marvin, Mrs. Ann Unknown. 

Marvin, Mrs. Julia R Washington, D. C. 

Mather, Mrs Unknown. 

Mayo, Mrs. Harriet Unknown. 

McArthur, J. A Unknown. 

Mclntyre, Clara (Mrs. Rice) Elma, N. Y. 

McRoberts, Mr. and Mrs .' Unknown. 

McVean, Mrs. Sarah Philadelphia, Pa. 

McVean, Miss Jeannette (Mrs. Earp) Philadelphia, Pa. 

McVean, Miss Christina 11 North street. 

McWhorter, Mrs. Mary Chicago. 

Meachem, Mrs Unkno wn. 

Mills, Agnes D Unknown. 

Monroe, Miss Mary Unknown. 

Monroe, Miss Hattie Camillus. 

Moore, Miss Adeline (Mrs. G. E. Sikes) Unknown. 

Morse, Caroline F Unknown. 

Murdock, Ellen A New Orleans. 

Newell, Mrs. Matilda Unknown. 

Nichols, George Nelson Unknown. 

Noxon, Mrs. Eliza > 225 Pearl street. 

Olds, James and Mrs. Susan Unknown. 

Oyer, Miss Annie M Springville, N. Y. 

Paine, Thomas Unknown. 

Paxon, Miss Mercy (Mrs. Eli Webster) Webster's Corners. 

Perkins, Mrs. Electa (Mrs. Viele) 

Perkins, Mrs. Phcebe Unknown. 

Persons, Miss Mary C. East Aurora, N. Y. 

Phillips, Miss Emily (Mrs. Bedford) Irving Place. 

Piatt, Hermon S Cincinnati, O. 

Porter, Mrs. Catharine H New York. 

Post, Mrs. Hellen Unknown. 

Rider, Miss Lucy Unknown. 

Riley, Thomas Unknown. 

Ross, Miss Cassie 1 181 Delaware avenue. 

Rothfuss, Miss Ruth Maryland corner of Fourth. 

Rumsey, Israel P Batavia, N. Y. 

Russell, Mrs. Julina O Cowlesville. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Charlotte M. (Mrs. Gay) Rochester, N. Y. 

Schelling, Miss Louisa F Unknown. 

Scott, Edward T Went to France. 

Seaman, Mrs. Henrietta (Mrs. York) 

Semon, Mrs. Ann and Miss Catharine Mariner street. 



LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 279 

Senn, Frederick Unknown. 

Seymour, Mrs. B. F Unknown 

Sibley, William E Chicago, 111. 

Sibley, Mrs. (Cora Curtiss) Chicago. 

Sinclair, Miss Charlotte Unknown! 

Smith, Earl Sidney and Mrs. Abby .Unknown! 

Smith, Miss Jane England! 

Smith, Alfred and Miss Rhoda England! 

Smith, Miss Mary Hanna Unknown! 

Snyder, Miss Setha (Mrs. J. B. Hill) Lockport, N. Y 

Strachen, Thomas Catholic Church! 

Sudderick, John 18 Twelfth street. 

Sudderick, Miss Margaret 18 Twelfth street. 

Sudderick, Miss Maggie (Mrs. Bingham) 419 Delaware street! 

Swartz, Frederick Unknown! 

Thayer, Nathan W ) 10 ~ „ 

Thayer, Mrs. Rosa Krettner \ 124 College street. 

Thomas, Mrs. John F Unknown. 

Thomas, Nathan and Mrs. Mary Ann Unknown. 

Thomas, Allen New STork. 

Townsend, Mrs. Elizabeth A Unknown. 

Van Wyck, Lawrence New York. 

Valentine, Miss Minnie S Went to Illinois. 

Vaux, Mrs. Alphreda A 97 Arcade, Rochester, N. Y. 

Wade, Miss Jane (Mrs. Morrow) In the West. 

W r ade, Miss Emma C. (Mrs. Fullerton) No. 6 Wadsworth Park. 

"Wall, Miss Rose A Unknown. 

"Walker, J. W Boston, Mass. 

Watson, Chauncey R Indianapolis, Ind. 

Watson, Miss Frances (Mrs. Austin) San Francisco, Cal. 

Webber, Miss Catherine Unknown. 

Weller, Miss Elizabeth and Miss Esther Unknown. 

Weiler, Miss Maggie Unknown. 

West, Miss Mattie A Unknown. 

Wheeler, Miss Jennie 234 West Genesee street. 

Whitcomb, Miss Cora (Mrs. Sirret) 543 Niagara street. 

Whitlaw, Mrs. Isabella Unknown. 

Williams, Dr. Avery 78 Glenwood avenue. 

Williams, Mrs. Eliza 78 Glenwood avenue. 

Williams, George A 78 Glenwood avenue. 

Williamson, James and wife Julia Unknown. 

Wing, Mrs. Susan E. (Mrs. Charles J.) 117 Hudson street. 

Wing, Mrs. Annie E. (Mrs. Charles H.) 44 Allen street. 

Woods, William V Chicago, 111. 

Woods, Mrs. Phcebe Ann Chicago, 111. 

Woods, Mrs. Anna Augusta Chicago, 111. 

Wright, Thomas Unknown. 



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LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 283 



YOUNG LADIES MARRIED 

SINCE UNITING WITH THE CHURCH. —CORRECTED LIST. 
(See Page 79.) 



Dec. 3, 1865 Bettis, Miss Sarah" H Mrs. Stephen Mapes. 

May 9, 1876 Brown, Miss Susie Mrs. George C. Farnsworth. 

June 16, 1851 Bryant, Miss Lucy Mrs. Edwin C. Walker. 

April 20, 1853 Crittenden, Miss Ellen Mrs. H. C. Campbell. 

Field, Miss Hattie Mrs. C. H. Philpot. 

Dec. 2, 1847 Hammond, Miss Mary Ann Mrs. N. W. Edmonds. 

Aug. 29, 1869 Haslam, Miss Jane Mrs. Edward Smith. 

May 16, 1847 Henion, Miss Catharine H Mrs. James Avery, 

May 6, 1870 Krettner, Miss Carrie Mrs. William Bristol. 

June 18, 1871 Krettner, Miss Rosa Mrs. Nathan C. Thayer. 

Nov. 27, 1877 Mabie, Miss Emma Mrs. R.W. Graves. 

Mills, Miss Agnes Mrs. Joseph W. Best. 

July 5, 1864 Moore, Miss Ella C Mrs. Edward W. Williams. 

Aug. 8, 1860 Piatt, Miss Harriet M Mrs. L. R. Casey. 

Dec. 23, 1858 Price, Miss Olivia M Mrs. Joseph H. Fox. 

Sept. 18, 1865 Price, Miss Julia R Mrs. Rev. James Hopkins. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Hannah Mrs. Samuel F. Paddock. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Amia Mrs. Charles G. Root. 

Sept. 16, 1875 Schermerhorn, Miss Emeline P Mrs. Heartwell. 

Schermerhorn, Miss Charlotte M. . . . Mrs. E. C. Gay. 

Dec. 13, 1877 Stockbridge, Miss Fannie Mrs. W. M. Knight. 

Snyder, Miss. Josephine Mrs. James Bouton. 

Wade, Miss Jane Mrs. John Rendal. 

*Vosseller, MissRacilia \ \ Jgj AfjDyfehart. 

Dr. Heacock united 364 couples in wedlock. 

MEMBERSHIP RECAPITULATION. 

Whole membership on active list 444 

Of which were admitted on profession 263 

Of which were admitted on letter 181 

Members of the congregation 130 

Number put on retired list now in the city 49 

Number put in other designated places 58 

Number unknown 85 

Whole number on the Church list who are still Church 

members 636 



284 LAFAYETTE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



ERRATA. 



On page 4, instead of John B. Prich, read Pride. Byron H. , instead of Byron S. 
Wescott. 

On page 13, in the footing at the bottom, for $317.30, read $367.30. 
For errors in the list of members from page 17 to page 28, find corrections in the 
''Historical Catalogue," pages 30 to 76 inclusive. 
On pages 31 and 81, read Mrs. Florence Baker, *May 16, 1873. 
On page 33, read Miss, for Mrs. Hannah C. Blood. 
On pages 42 and 81, for Doosenbury, read Dusenbury. 
On page 44, Benj. H., not F. Folger. 
On page 48, for Glastonburg, read Glastenbury. 
On page 49, read Miss, for Mrs. Abby E. Heacock. 
On pages 50 and 79, read Miss, for Mrs. Maria T. Henry. 
On page 51, read Miss Helen, not Hellen Horton. 

On page 53, read George S. Kain, not George L. Kane ; and instead of unknown, 
read dismissed, J anuary 11, 1876, to Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

On page 58, read Richard R. McCready, *April 9, 1860, not 1846. 
On page 78, read in the small table at the bottom, 61 for 69 as the number on 
profession for 1864. 

On page 78, year 1876, for 2 Communion seasons, read 3. For 34 on profession, 
read 46. For 9 on letter, read 10. Whole number admitted in 1876 to June 4, 56. 
Whole membership, for 1,398, read 1,401. For 157 Communion seasons, read 158 to 
June 4. 

On page 79, read Mrs. for Miss Agnes Derrick. 

On page 85, read residence of Samuel N. Lawrence, as on pages 23 and 55. 
On page 86 read 10 South Division, instead of North Division, as the residence of 
Miss F. E. Stockbridge. 
On page 164, read S. N. Lawrence, teacher in 1875, not 1857. 

On page 253, in the first resolution read second weak in January instead of third. 
On page 45 the * in the column of dismissal is an error. 
Also on page 152, Julius D. Foot, said there to be deceased — error. 
On page 82, Mrs. Julius D. Foot is among the deceased — a typographical error — 
both still living. 

On page 141, read 1874, not 1870. 

On page 144 the third paragraph should read thus : 

"Things Spiritual have suffered no neglect from your absence, though the mem- 
bers of your Session are greatly," &c. 

On page 31, Historical Catalogue, D. W. Baily is said to have died in the war of 
the rebellion. Error. Now known to be living in the Oil Regions, Pennsylvania. 

On page 31, Historical Catalogue, John S. Baker is said to have been dismissed 
to Belle Plain, Minn. , in 1868. Error ; he having died in the army in 1863 or 1863. 

On page 51, for Miss Jane Hoslam, read Haslam. 



INDEX. 



Page. 

Action of Superior Court 209 

Action of Mayor Becker and Com- 
mon Council 209 

Action of Buffalo Sunday School 

Association 209 

Adams, Rev. Myron (preaching) 189 

Address of Welcome from Califor- 

. nia — Andrew Parker 136 

Address of Welcome from Califor- 
nia— Dr. Clark 137 

Address of Welcome from Europe — 

Henry Childs 143 

Address of Welcome from Europe — 

Dr. Johu C. Lord 146 

Address at Memorial service at North 

Church— Rev. Wolcott Calkins .... 201 
Address at Memorial service at North 

Church— Prof. Hopkins 201, 202 

Address at Memorial service at North 

Church— Rev. William Reed 203 

Address at Memorial service at North 

Church— Rev. Charles Wood 203 

Address at Memorial service at North 

Church— Rev. Mr. Crabbe 204 

Address at Memorial service at North • 

Church— Rev. D. R. Frazer 205 

Address, Wednesdav evening, by 

John Otto 210 

W. M. Knight 211 

Address at the funeral — Rev. Bvron 

Sunderland, D. D 222, 225 

Address at the funeral — Rev. A. T. 

Chester 214 

Anniversary Exercises, 25th 119 

Annual Catalogue 17 

Annual Church meeting 7, 258 

Annual meeting of the Society . . .7, 258 

Annual renting of pews 7, 258 

Arrangements for funeral of Dr. 

Heacock '. 209 

Articles of Faith and the Covenant, 8, 259 

Baptism of the Children 258 

Bearers 212 

Beneficence 99 

Beneficence, Scheme of Systematic. 15 

Bible Classes 263 

Biographical 206 

Bixby, James W. — Hymn of Wel- 

"come 142 

Board of Trustees 6, 86, 257 

presidents of, 4,« 5, 6, 86, 257 
Secretary and Treas- 
urer, 4, 5, 6, 86, 257 



Page. 

Book-racks, when put in pews 180 

Bristol, Edward, ordination of 252 

Rev. Edward (preaching) . . . 252 
Brundige, Charles G., remarks in 

Sunday School 226 

Brundige, Charles G.. memorial let- 
ter 231 

California, visit to 1 32 

Calhoun, Rev. Simeon R, D.D., 187, 189, 
190. 

Catalogue Annual 17, 267 

Catalogue, active list 267 to 275 

Catalogue, historical 30, 280 

Catalogue, retired list 276 to 279 

Chester, Rev.A.T., D.D., 188,189, 190,214 

Chester, Rev. Carl T 188, 189 

Christian Association, woman's (city), 14 

Christian Band 258 

Church contributions 183, 186 

edifices, history of 90 

services 7, 258 

Sabbath School 11, 105, 152, 258, 
263. 

the true idea of 112 

work and results 105, 109 

prayer meeting 258 

Treasurer's report for 1876. . . 186 

Coan, Rev. G-. W., D. D 188 

Commercial Advertiser 207 

Committee of Arrangements (Cal.)..134 
funeral, 209 
Committee to reply to Pastor's letter 

annual meeting 190 

Committee on pulpit supply 189, 193 

Common Council, action of 209 

Communion 258 

Confession of faith 8, 259 

Contribution, Church, etc 183 

boxes, stationery 1 80 

Conversation with our Pastor in re- 
gard to resignation 198 

Cordon of Temperance. .13, 108, 171, 258, 
265. 

Miss Chichester's paper 171 

officers. 171 

remarks by compiler 171 

action of, funeral 209 

Courier, Daily, extract from 207 

Covenant 10, 261 

Daly, Rev. James A 190, 191, 199 

Deaths 86,281 

Dedicatory exercises 117 

Dedicatory hymn — Prof. Hopkins . . . 117 



286 



INDEX. 



Page. 

Dick, Rev. Robert 187 

Dismissals 86 

not in Historical Catalogue, 282 

Eldership 2, 257, 266 

Elders, first election of 177 

second election of 177 

third election of 178 

fourth election of 179 

fifth election of 181 

sixth election of 257 

ordination of 266 

Errata .186, 284 

Evangelical work Ill 

Evening services, Sabbath 113, 258 

E vening services 7, 258 

Exercises, dedicatory 117 

California, farewell to 132 

California, welcome from, 134 
European, welcome from. 142 

25th anniversary 119 

Memorial at the Church, 

May 6th 200 

Memorial at the Sabbath 

School 226, 230 

Memorial at Milnor Street 

Sunday School 201 

Memorial at the North 

Church 201, 205 

Church memorial 234 

funeral 212 to 225 

Faith, articles of 8 

Farewell on departure to California . 132 

Fire, the 92 

First report of Sabbath School , 152 

Funeral, the 209, 212 to 225 

Funeral Sermon 216 to 222 

G-eneral Church prayer meeting 258 

General Hospital 14 

General Index 1 

General statement of funds, 1876 186 

General statement of funds for thirty- 
one years 185, 1S6 

General survey of other Churches ... 101 

Grateful review 115 

Grave, the 215 

Hale, Henry H., remarks 195, 227 

Heacock, Rev. G. W., D. D., 31st an- 
niversary sermon 89 

California visit 132 

response to California 

welcome 139 

response to European 

welcome 148 

last week-day service . 188 

last sermon 188 

letter to the Church 

annual meeting 190 

letter of resignation. . .192 
age when graduated . . 206 

when married 206 

first visit to Europe . . . 206 
second visit to Europe . 206 

visit to California 206 

last hours anddeath, 199, 200 

funeral, etc 212 to 225 

Historical Catalogue 30 



Page. 

Historical Catalogue, continued 280 

Historical, 176, 187, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199, 
252, 253, 254. 

History of Church edifices 90 

growth 97 

organization 2, 97 

Society 3, 96 

Home Missions 14 

Home for the Friendless 15 

Bristol's paper, 169 
Hopkins, Prof., 189, 190, 198, 226, 227, 
252, 253. 

Horton,C. M., on Pastor's resignation, 196 
Hymn, dedicatory, Prof. Hopkins . . .117 
of welcome (California), A. G. 

Chester 135 

21st anniversary — Miss Mary 

A. Ripley 119 

of welcome (European), James 

A. Bixby 142 

Memorial— Miss Mary A. Rip- 
ley 235 

sang at the death-bedside 199 

lngersol, Rev. W. M., letter from . . .131 
Ingleside Home, officers, organization, 

etc 14, 170 

State appropriation . 170 
Installation of Rev. Henry M. Parsons 
266. 

Introductory remarks, Sabbath 

School paper 152 

Keene, tribute in the Courier 207 

Ladies' Association of the Church, 13, 107 
258, 263. 

Ladies' ForeignMissionary Society, 13, 168 
258, 263. 

Ladies' prayer meeting 258 

Last words" 213 

Last look 215 

Late dismissals. 282 

Late deaths 281 

Late and other marriages not before 

put down 283 

Letter of resignation 192 

Lot on Washington St., purchase of .179 
Mayor Becker, special message on the 

death of Dr. Heacock 209 

Membership 17, 30, 267 

Membership, original 176 

Membership, active list 267 

Membership, retired list 276 

Membership, recapitulation of 77, 283 

Memoirs, etc 116, 117 

Memorial exercises at the Church . . . 200 
at the North 

Church, 201 to 205 
at Milnor street, 201 
our own Sabbath 

School.... 226, 229 
at the Church, 
June 10, 1870.. 234 

Memorial letters 227, 229, 231, 232 

service at the Church, June 

10, 1877 234 

sertnon .....235 to 251 

action of Presbytery 255 



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Page. 

Milnor Street Sabbath School, 11,105,165 
258, 265. 

Minister's memorial meeting 209 

Mission and mission work 106 

Monthly concert 12, 258 

My ministry, pastorate and pulpit. . .109 

Name of original members 176 

Nason, Rev. C. P. H 188 

Officers of Woman's Foreign Mission- 
ary Society 13, 168 

of the Church and Society, 2 to 5 

Young Men's Association 174 

Board of Trustees 3, 86 

of the Session 257 

Cordon of Temperance. . . 13, 171 

Ingleside Home 170 

of Sabbath School,ll, 154,159,287 
Officiating clergymen (funeral). .213, 215 

Organization of Society 3 

Organization of the Church 2, 176 

Organization, late 257 

Organ, cost of 180 

Organist 6 

Orphan Asylum 15, 265 

statement for 1877. . .265 

Our apostles 100 

Our young people 108 

Our Pastor's 31st anniversary sermon, 89 

installation 177, 266 

response to Californian 

welcome 139 

response to European 

welcome 148 

resignation and action of 

the Church 192 to 198 

private conversation 198 

condition of health, 187 188, 
189, 198, 199. 

death .200 

last sermon 188 

last Wednesday evening 

service 188 

closing hours of his life 
189, 200 

Parsons, Rev. Henry M 150, 252, 254 

call to the Pastorate 252 

installation 266 

Pastorate and pulpit 109, 110 

Patriotism 112 

Pews, valuation and rental fixed 179 

Poem, CaliforniaWelcome— Anson G. 

Chester 139 

Poem, European Welcome— Miss Mary 

A. Ripley 145 

Plumb, Rev. A. H., telegram from . .214 

preached 252 

Preparatory Lecture 258 

Present organization 257 

Prisons and institutions of mercy . . .106 

Pulpit Supply Committee 189 

Putnam, Hon. James O., tribute in 

Commercial 207 

Recapitulation of membership . . .77, 283 

Recapitulation of funds 185 

Reception of members 8, 259 

Reforms HI 



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Remark on Pastor's resignation, 195, 196 
Remarks, twenty first anniversary . .119 
by Rev. Anson G. Chester, 120 
Charles C.Johnson, 122 
Albert G. Bale.... 123 
William Kincaid. .124 
Albert H. Plumb.. 125 
Joseph W. Backus, 129 
on Sabbath School, 104 
of the press, 117, 132, 141, 200 
207, 234. 

by John Otto 192, 210 

W. M. Knight 211 

Henry H. Hale, on letter 

of resignation 195 

Elder George L. Squier 

on letter of resignation, 195 
Elder C. H. Baker, on 

letter of resignation . . 196 
C. M. Horton, on letter 

of resignation 196 

WiUiam Wade, on letter 

of resignation 196 

Charles Gr. Brundige ... 197 
Rev. Wolcott Calkins, 

D.D.,atNorthChurch, 201 
Prof. Hopkins at North 

Church 201 

Rev. William Reed, at 

North Church 203 

Rev. Charles Wood . . . .203 

Henry W. Crabbe 204 

David R. Frazer 205 

Dr. A. T. Chester at the 

funeral 214 

Charles G. Brundige, 
Sabbath School Memo- 
rial 226 

Prof. Hopkins, Sabbath 

School Memorial 226 

Henry H. Hale, Sabbath 

School Memorial 227 

Elder C, H. Baker, Sab- 
bath School Memorial, 228 
Elder George L. Squier, 
Sabbath School Memo- 
rial 230 

Renting of pews 258 

Report of Pulpit Committee on sup- 
ply 193 

Report on the Young People's Bible 

Class, by Miss J ennie Turner 263 

Results 109 

Resolutions on Pastor's resignation . .194 
Response to Pastor's letter to the 

Church 191 

Response to Pastor's letter of resigna- 
tion 194 

Review (grateful) 115 

Revivals 99 

Riley, Rev. Isaac M 188 

Ripley, Rev. Allen P., D. D 188 

Ripley, Miss Mary A., poems . . .145, 235 
Sabbath School (Church) ... .11, 105, 152 
officers.... 11, 154 to 159 



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Page. 

Sabbath School teachers 160 to 164 

Milnor street, 11, 105, 165 

Sabbath services 7, 258 

Sabbath evening services 113, 258 

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. . . . .258 

Scheme of systematic beneficence 15 

Sermon, Pastor's 31st anniversary. . . 89 
Dr. Shaw's Funeral . .216 to 222 
Memorial, Prof. Hopkins, 235 to 
251. 

Service (the first) 89 

Session, regular meeting of 258 

term of holding office 266 

clerk of 2, 178, 257 

Memorial resolution 233 

treasurer of 2, 178, 257 

Sexton 257 

Shaw, Rev. James B., D. D., fu- 
neral sermon 216 to 222 

Spiritual History of the Church (ba- 
bble) 78 

Squier, George L., Memorial resolu- 
tions (session) 228, 233 

Squier, George L., remarks 195, 230 

Statement of general fund 16, 186 

Style and cost of our present edifice, 118, 
185. 

Summary of Church history 176, 187 

Summary of the most important 

events of the Church history 256 

Sunday School 263 

Sunday School, primary department, 263 
Sunday School Association of the city, 
action on the death of Dr. Heacock,209 

Sunderland, Rev. Byron, D. D 187 

Sunderland, Rev. Byron, D. D., ad- 
dress at funeral 222 to 225 

Table of Eldership 2 



Page. 

Table of Trusteeship ' 4,5 

Table spiritual history 76 

Teacher of Bible Class 263 

Telegram from Rev. A. H. Plumb 

(funeral) 214 

Trustees 4 

Trustees, present board of 86, 257 

Trustees, when elected 258 

Twenty-fifth anniversary 119, 120 

Ushers 6, 257 

Wade, William, remarks of Pastor's 

resignation 196 

Washburn, Rev. Mr 189 

Week day evening service 7, 258 

Welcome back from California 134 

Europe 141 

West side Pres. Church, letters of 

session 254 

Woman's Christian Association (city) 14 
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 

258, 263. 

Mrs. Henry Child's paper 168 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 

officers • 13, 168 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 

meetings 13, 169 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 

contributions 7, 13, 158, 169 

Woman's prayer meeting 258 

Woman's work 13 

Work evangelistic Ill 

Young ladies' prayer meeting 258 

Young ladies married 79, 283 

Young Men's Association 12, 258, 265 

C. H. Baker's paper . . .173 

officers ] 74 

Young people's prayer meeting 258 




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